midnight
But after the moon had risen , the five , with Heemskerk , went ahead through the forest . The Iroquois town of Kanawaholla lay just ahead , and the army would reach it on the morrow . It was the intention of the scouts to see if it was still occupied . It was near midnight when the little party drew near to Kanawaholla and watched it from the shelter of the forest . Like most other Iroquois towns , it contained wooden houses , and cultivated fields were about it . No smoke rose from any of the chimneys , but the sharp eyes of the scouts saw loaded figures departing through a great field of ripe and waving corn . It was the last of the inhabitants , fleeing with what they could carry .