He too was steeped in Indian lore and belief, and, if Tayoga said he saw and heard what others could not hear or see, then he saw and heard them and that was all there was to it.
"What do you see, Tayoga ?" he asked.
"Tododaho sits on his star with the wise snakes, coil on coil in his hair, and the great Mohawk, Hayowentha, who is inferior only to Tododaho, speaks to him from his own star across infinite space.

They are talking of us, but it comes only as a whisper, like the dying voice of a distant wind, and I cannot understand their words.

But both the great warriors look down warningly at us.

They tell us to beware, that we are threatened by a great peril.

I can read their faces.