He had been glad to meet Tayoga, the Great Bear, and the new young white chief, Dagaeoga, whose speech was like the flowing of pleasant waters.

It was a favoring wind that had brought them together, because they had enjoyed good talk, and had exchanged wise counsel with one another.

Robert agreed with him in flowery allegory and took from the canoe where it had been stored among their other goods a present for the chief--envoys seldom traveled through the Indian country without some such article for some such occasion.
It was _gajewa_, a war club, beautifully carved and polished, made of ironwood about three feet long, and with tufts of brilliant feathers at either end.

Inserted at one end was a deer's horn, about five inches in length, and as sharp as a razor.

While it was called a war club, it was thus more of a battle ax, and at close range and wielded by a powerful arm it was a deadly weapon.