Meanwhile Tayoga, who seemed to feel no weariness, and the others were watching.

In a short time the hunter announced that it was time to go.
"We can't afford to delay here any longer and have 'em overtake us!" he said.

"We're out of the ring now, and it's our affair to keep out.
Lieutenant Grosvenor, you can tell us as we go along how you happened to be the prisoner of Tandakora." "It needs only a few words," said the Englishman as they took their way southward through the woods.

"I was at Albany with a body of troops, a vanguard for the force that we mean to march against the French at Ticonderoga.

I was sent northward with ten men to scour the country, and in the woods we were set upon suddenly by savage warriors.