Each officer and man carried provisions for eight days in his knapsack.
Two days' march brought them to within three miles of Fort Lyman, and they encamped close to the road which led to Lake George.

Just after they had encamped, a man rode by on horseback.

It was Adams, Johnson's messenger.

He was shot by the Indians, and the letter found upon him.
Soon afterwards, ten or twelve waggons appeared, in charge of ammunition drivers who had left the English camp without orders.
Some of the drivers were shot, two taken prisoners, and the rest ran away.

The two prisoners declared that, contrary to the assertion of the prisoner at Ticonderoga, a large force lay encamped by the lake.