The march was made in a leisurely manner, and the force took two days to traverse the fourteen miles between Fort Lyman and the lake.

They were now in a country hitherto untrodden by white men save by solitary hunters.
They reached the southern end of the beautiful lake, which hitherto had received no English name, and was now first called Lake George in honour of the king.

The men set to work, and felled trees until they had cleared a sufficient extent of ground for their camp, by the edge of the water, and posted themselves with their back to the lake.

In their front was a forest of pitch pine, on their right a marsh covered with thick brush wood, on their left a low hill.

Things went on in the same leisurely way which had marked the progress of the expedition.
No attempt was made to clear away the forest in front, although it would afford excellent cover for any enemy who might attack them, nor were any efforts made to discover the whereabouts or intention of the enemy.