Perhaps Sharp Sword is giving him instructions about the camp that they will make when the day is over.

Now Dubois also goes, and here come the great moccasins of Tandakora.

I have seen none other so large in the woods, and a child would know them.

He too talks with Sharp Sword, but Sharp Sword does not stop for him.

They walk on together, because the stride continues steady and even, just the length that a man of Sharp Sword's height would make when walking.