Does he not know that to do the hard thing strengthens both mind and body?
Has he forgotten what Mynheer Jacobus Huysman told us so often in Albany?
Now is a splendid opportunity for Dagaeoga to harden himself a great deal." "I realize it, Tayoga, but I don't want my mind and body to grow too hard.
When one is all steel one ceases to be receptive.

Can you see the river through the trees there ?" "I catch the glitter of sunlight on the water." "I hope it looks like deep water." "It is sufficient to float the canoe and the lazy Dagaeoga can take to his paddle again." They put their boat back into the stream, uttering great sighs of relief, and resumed the far more pleasant travel by water, the day remaining golden as if doing its best to please them.

They had another long stretch of good water, and they did not stop until they were well into the afternoon.

Then Tayoga proposed that they make a fire and cook all of the deer.
"It seems that the risk here is not great," he said, "and we may not have the chance later on." Robert, who still felt that they were protected and that for a day or two no harm could come to them under any circumstances, was more than willing, and they spent the remainder of the day in their culinary task.

After dark he slept three hours, to be followed by Tayoga for the same length of time, and about midnight they started up the stream again, with their food cooked and ready beside them.
Although the Onondaga shared Robert's feeling that they were protected for the time, both exercised all their usual caution, believing thoroughly in the old saying that heaven helps those who help themselves.