. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . stuck thesesticks in the ground according to his own judgment. Thenhe called his companions, and they studied the was a plan of the battle — a sort of Indian Kriegspiel, likethe German military game that has the same object. Thewarriors studied the sticks under the eye of the chief, andcomprehended the position each should occupy. Then theyrehearsed it in successive drills. We are thus able to under-stand—what would otherwise be difiicult to explain—the com-pact and orderly
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . stuck thesesticks in the ground according to his own judgment. Thenhe called his companions, and they studied the was a plan of the battle — a sort of Indian Kriegspiel, likethe German military game that has the same object. Thewarriors studied the sticks under the eye of the chief, andcomprehended the position each should occupy. Then theyrehearsed it in successive drills. We are thus able to under-stand—what would otherwise be difiicult to explain—the com-pact and orderly array which Champlains pictures represent. It was with a band of warriors thus trained that Champlain 134 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. set forth from Quebec, in June, 1610, to search for a camp ofIroquois. The Indian guides went first, armed, painted, naked,Hght-footed, and five Frenchmen marched after them, arrayedin heavy corselets for defence, and bearing guns and ammuni-tion. It was an alHance of hare and tortoise, but in this casethe hare kept in front. Champlain describes their discom-. ATTACK ON AN IROQUOIS FORT. forts as they tramped in their heavy accoutrements throughpathless swamps, with water reaching to their knees, far be-hind their impatient leaders, whose track they found it hardto trace. Suddenly they came upon the very scene where thefight had begun, and when the savages perceived them, theybegan to shout so that one could not have heard it the midst of this tumult Champlain anid his four compan-ions approached the Iroquois fortress — built solidly of large THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. 135 trees arranged in a circle—and coolly began to fire their mus-kets through the logs at the naked savages within. He thusdescribes the scene, which is also vividly depicted in one ofhis illustrations, here given :^ You could see the arrows fly on all sides as thick as hail. The Iroquoiswere astonished at the noise of our muskets, and especially that the ballspe
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