about 5 A.M.
He was silent . `` You know , '' I added , `` that to this man I owed my life at the Mischianza ball ; here he is in the same trap from which his refusal to aid my cousin saved me . '' I was terribly distressed , and at my urgent desire , in place of remaining at the fort , we set out after supper , and pulled down the river against the flood-tide , while my unfortunate friend Andre was hurried away to Tappan , guarded by a strong escort of light horse . We reached Sneedon 's Landing about 5 A.M. , and I went up with Jack to his hut . Here I got a bit of uneasy sleep , and thence set off to find Hamilton ; for the whole staff , with his Excellency , had made haste to reach the camp at Tappan so soon as the general felt reassured as to the safety of West Point . I walked a half-mile up a gentle rise of ground to the main road , about which were set , close to the old Dutch church , a few modest , one-story stone houses , with far and near the cantonments of the armies . At the bridge over a noisy brook I was stopped by sentries set around a low brick building then used as headquarters .