He put his ear to the earth and the sound came more clearly.

Now his wonderful gifts of intuition and forest reasoning told him what it was.

Slowly he rose again, cleared himself of the blankets, and put his rifle upon them.

Then, loosening the pistol in his belt, but drawing his long hunting knife, he crept from the thicket.
Tayoga, despite his thorough white education and his constant association with white comrades, was always an Indian first.

Now, as he stole from the thicket in the dark, knife in hand, he was the very quintessence of a great warrior of the clan of the Bear, of the nation Onondaga, of the great League of the Hodenosaunee.