Noon
The hunter also looked into the question of food supply and found it ample . They had brought much food with them from Albany and the forest had furnished much more . There was no occasion for alarm on that point , since the siege could not be a long one . Noon came and no sign of the enemy . Willet began to think the attack would be postponed until night , as St. Luc doubtless had learned already that he could not carry the place by surprise . But he relied most upon the word of Black Rifle who had not yet returned from the forest . The dark scout came back about the middle of the afternoon , and he told Colden and Willet that he had seen nothing of Daganoweda and his Mohawks , though there were indications in the forest that they had defeated the Hurons the night before .