But he has us in his keeping.

Look how he watched over us in Quebec, and look how the sword of the Great Bear was stretched before you when your enemies planned to slay you." "That's true, Tayoga.

I don't look forward to New York with any apprehension, but I do wonder what fate has prepared for us there." "We must await it with calm," said Tayoga philosophically.
The Onondaga himself was not a stranger to New York.

He had gone there once with the chiefs of the Hodenosaunee for a grand council with the British and provincial authorities, and he had gone twice with Robert when they were schoolboys together in Albany.

His enlightened mind, without losing any of its dignity and calm, took a deep interest in everything he saw at the port, through which the tide of nations already flowed.