How do the Iroquois feel toward the French who wish them so well ?" "They do not forget that this Quebec is the Stadacona of one of their great warrior nations, the Mohawks," replied Tayoga.
The Marquis started and flushed.
"Quebec is ours," he said slowly, after taking due thought.

"You cannot undo what was done two centuries ago." "The nations of the Hodenosaunee do not forget, what are two centuries to them ?" "When you return to the Long House in the vale of Onondaga, and the fifty sachems meet in council, tell them Onontio has only kindness in his heart for them.

The war clouds that hang over England and France grow many and thick, and my children are brave and vigilant.

They know the ways of the forest.

They travel by day and by night, and they strike hard.