After a while they stopped again that Tayoga might establish a new listening post upon the water, though nothing alarming yet came to those marvelous ears of his.

But it was evident that he expected peril, and Robert also anticipated it.
"A force as large as St.Luc's is sure to have brought canoes overland," said young Lennox, "and in a fog like this he'll have them launched on the lake." "It is so," said Tayoga, using his favorite expression, "and I think they will come soon." They moved on once more a few hundred yards, and then, when the Onondaga listened a long time, he announced that the hostile canoes were on the lake, cruising about in the fog.
"I hear one to the right of us, another to the left, and several directly ahead," he said.

"Sharp Sword brought plenty of canoes with him and he is using them.

I think they have formed a line across the lake, surmising that we would send a message to the south.

Sharp Sword is a great leader, and he forgets nothing." "They can't draw a line that we won't pass." Now they began to use their paddles very slowly and gently, the canoe barely creeping along, and Tayoga listening with all his powers.