I hope your journey, like all the others, has been fruitful." The Onondaga smiled in the dusk.
"It is a good village to which I go," he replied in his precise fashion.
"You will recall that they had in Albany what they call in the English tongue a chemist's shop.

It is such that I sought in the village, and I found it in one lodge, the owners of which were absent, and which I could reach at my leisure.

Here is a gourd of Indian tea, very strong, made from the essence of the sassafras root.

It will purge the impurities from your blood, and, in another day, your appetite will be exceedingly strong.

Then your strength will grow so fast that in a short time you will be ready for a long journey.