sufficient number, arrange the order of battle. Sticks
a foot long are taken, one for each warrior, and these
are laid out on a level place five or six feet square.
The leader then explains the order of battle, after which
the warriors substitute themselves for the sticks and go
through the manoeuvres till they can do them without
confusion.

From this description of tactics we pass speedily to a
story of real war. Reaching Lake Champlain, the party
skirted the western shore, with fine views of the Green
Mountains, on the summit of which Champlain mistook white
limestone for snow. On July 29, at Crown Point, the
Iroquois were encountered at about ten o'clock in the
evening. Thus the first real battle of French and Indians
took place near that remarkable spot where Lake Champlain
and Lake George draw close together--the Ticonderoga of
Howe, the Carillon of Montcalm.

The Algonquins were in good courage, for, besides the
muskets of the three Frenchmen, they were inspired by a
dream of Champlain that he had seen the Iroquois drowning
in a lake. As soon as the enemies saw each other, both
began to utter loud cries and make ready their weapons.
The Algonquins kept out on the water; the Iroquois went
ashore and built a barricade. When the Algonquins had
made ready for battle

they dispatched two canoes to the enemy to inquire if
they wished to fight, to which the latter replied that