Tayoga foresaw this big freeze, and I can tell you exactly what he did as accurately as if I had been there and had seen it.

He kept to the river and his canoe almost until the first thin skim of ice began to show.

Then he paddled to land, and hid the canoe again among thick bushes.

He raised it up a little on low boughs in such a manner that it would not touch the water.

Thus it was safe from the ice, and so leaving it well hidden and in proper condition, and situation, he sped on." "Of course you're a master with words, Robert, and the longer they are the better you seem to like 'em, but how is the Onondaga to make speed over the ice which now covers the earth?
Snow shoes, I take it, would not be available upon such a smooth and tricky surface, and, at any rate, he has left them far behind." "In part of your assumption you're right, Will.