Why shouldn't they when it brings light in the dark, and lifts up our souls, when it warms us and makes us feel strong, when it cooks our food and when in the earlier day it drove away the great wild animals, with which man was not able to fight on equal terms ?" "I am not one to undervalue fire," said Robert.
"Few of us do in the forest.

The night grows chill, but two of our good Canadians will keep the coals alive until morning.

And now I suppose you are weary with your day's travels and wish sleep.

I see that you have blankets of your own or I should offer you some of ours." Tayoga had been sitting before the fire, as silent as the Canadian Indians, his rifle across his knees, his eyes turned toward the blaze.
The glow of the flames fell upon him, disclosing his lofty countenance, his splendidly molded figure, and his superiority to the other Indians, who were not of the Hodenosaunee and who to him were, therefore, as much barbarians as all people who were not Greeks were barbarians to the ancient Greeks.

Not a word of kinship or friendship had passed between him and them.