midnight
By heavens , Morris ! This is Cornstalk 's whole force . They 've learned that Dunmore is at the Hockhockin ' an ' will be j' inin ' up with Lewis any day , an ' old Cornstalk thinks to lick Lewis afore Dunmore 's men can git along ! '' It was now after midnight , and I knew we should be back at camp and warning Colonel Lewis of his peril . I knew from my last talk with him that he did not expect to meet the Indians in any numbers until we had crossed the Ohio . Our failure to find any Indians at the Point and our prospects for an immediate crossing conduced to this belief . The day before all the scouts had been instructed as to our maneuvers once we crossed the river and were searching for ambushes .