The defenders stood ready at their posts, partly under cover, and so arrayed as easily to put themselves so, and were armed in very nearly the same manner with the assailing party.

In this guise of formidable defence, they waited patiently the onset.
There was a brief pause after their arrival, on the part of the invading force, which was employed principally in consultation as to the proper mode of procedure, and in examination of the ground.

Their plan of attack, depending altogether upon the nature of circumstances yet to be seen, had not been deliberated upon before.

The consultation lasted not long, however, and no man's patience was too severely tried.

Having deputed the command to the landlord, they left the matter pretty much to that person; nor was their choice unhappy.
Munro had been a partisan well-taught in Indian warfare, and it was said of him, that he knew quite as well how to practise all their subtleties as themselves.