CHAPTER III.
IN THE CLIFF It was only a half mile to the promised land and Robert expected a quick and easy voyage, as they were powerful swimmers and could push the tree before them without trouble.
"When I reach the shore and get well back of the lake," he said to Tayoga, "I mean to lie down in a thicket and sleep forty-eight hours.
I am entitled now to a rest that long." "Dagaeoga will sleep when the spirits of earth and air decree it, and not before," replied the Onondaga gravely.

"Can you see anything of our foes in the south ?" "Not a trace." "Then your eyes are not as good as mine or you do not use them as well, because I see a speck on the water blacker than the surface of the lake, and it is moving." "Where, Tayoga ?" "Look toward the eastern shore, where the cliff rises tall and almost straight." "Ah, I see it now.

It _is_ a canoe, and it _is_ moving." "So it is, Dagaeoga, and it is coming our way.

Did I not tell you that Manitou, no matter how much he favors us, will not help us all the time?
Not even the great and pious Tododaho, when he was on earth, expected so much.

Now I think that after saving you with the bird and all of us with the empty canoe he means to leave us to our own strength and courage, and see what we will do." "And it will be strange, if after being protected so far by a power greater than our own we can't protect ourselves now," said Willet gravely.
"The canoe is coming fast," said Tayoga.