It all looked like a great picnic, and the effect was heightened by the youth of the soldiers.
"As the Great Bear truly said," whispered Tayoga, "Manitou has watched over them.

The forest does not hold easier game for the taking, and had Tandakora known that they were here he would have come seeking revenge for his loss in the attack upon Captain Colden's troop." "You're right as usual, Tayoga, and now we'd better hail them.

But don't you come forward just yet.

They don't know the difference between Indians and likely your welcome would be a bullet." "I will wait," said Tayoga.
"I tell you, Carson," the young lieutenant was saying in an oratorical manner, "that they magnify the dangers of the wilderness.

The ford at which we were to meet Colden is just ahead, and we've come straight to it without the slightest mishap.