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THE LAST OF
CHAPTER III.
"Then go we in, to know his embassy;
Which I could, with a ready guess, declare,
Before the Frenchman speak a word of it."
The few succeeding days were passed amid all the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance. It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his brethren were reduced. Montcalm had filled the woods of the portage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment,
