Unless they come out and attack us we can decimate 'em." Although it was hard to restrain the rangers, who wished to crowd closer, Rogers and Willet nevertheless were able to make them keep their distance, and they maintained a deadly fire that picked off warrior after warrior and that threatened the enemy with destruction.

St.Luc's Indians uttered shouts of rage and fired many shots, all of which fell short.

Then Robert saw St.Luc leave the stump and enter his waiting canoe.
"They'll come to meet us now," he said.

"We've smoked 'em out." "Truly they will," said Tayoga.

"They must advance or die at the land's edge." The portion of his fleet which St.Luc and his men had managed to save was almost as large as that of the Americans and Mohawks, and seeing that they must do it, they put out boldly from the land, St.Luc in the center in his canoe, paddled by a single Indian.