All night long these canoes plied across the half-mile stretch of water and by daylight sufficient food to last the garrison for several weeks had been delivered.
From day to day the Indians kept up a desultory firing, while Gladwyn took precautions against a long siege.

Food was taken from the houses of the inhabitants and placed in a common storehouse.

Timber was torn from the walks and used in the construction of portable bastions, which were erected outside the fort.

There being danger that the roofs of the houses would be ignited by means of fire-arrows, the French inhabitants of the fort were made to draw water and store it in vessels at convenient points.

Houses, fences, and orchards in the neighbourhood were destroyed and levelled, so that skulking warriors could not find shelter.