I don't claim to be any prophet like you, Tayoga, because I'm a modest man, I am, but the night will be wet and dark." "Then we are still under the protection of Tododaho, of Areskoui and of Manitou, greatest of all.

Let the dark come quickly and the rain fall heavily, because they will be a veil about us to hide us from Tandakora and his savages." All that the Onondaga wished came to pass.

The clouds, circling about the horizon, soon spread to the zenith, and covered the heavens, hiding the moon and the last star.

The rain came, not in a flood, but in a cold and steady pour lasting all night.

The night was not only dark and wet outside, but it was very chill also, though in the cave the two young warriors, the white and the red, were warm and dry on their blankets and beds of leaves.
Robert pounded more of the venison the next morning and gave Tayoga twice as much as he had eaten the day before.