Ear muffs and caps of bearskin followed.
"I feel some reluctance about using bearskin so much," said Robert, "since the bears about us are inhabited by the souls of great warriors and are our friends." "But the bears that we killed did not belong here," said Tayoga, "and were bears and nothing more.

It was right for us to slay them because the bear was sent by Manitou to be a support for the Indian with his flesh and his pelt." "But how do you know that the bears we killed were just bears and bears only ?" "Because, if they had not been we would not have killed them." Thus were the qualms of young Lennox quieted and he used his bearskin cap, gloves and cloak without further scruple.

The snowshoes were completed and Tayoga announced that he would start early the next morning.
"I may be gone three or four days, Dagaeoga," he said, "but I will surely return.

I shall avoid danger, and do you be careful also." "Don't fear for me," said Robert.

"I'm not likely to go farther than the brook, since there's no great sport in breaking your way through snow that comes to your waist, and which, moreover, is covered with a thick sheet of ice.