I shall be too glad to see you and the deer to fire." With the rifle so adjusted across his back that, if need be, he could disengage it at once, the quiver fastened also and Tayoga's bow in his hand, Robert made ready.
"Now, Tayoga," he said, "exert that famous will of yours like a true medicine man of the Hodenosaunee.

While I am absent, so direct me with the concentrated power of your mind that I shall soon find a fat young deer, and that my arrow shall not miss.

I'll gratefully receive all the help you can give me in this way, though I won't neglect, if I see the deer, to take the best aim I can with bow and arrow." "Do not scoff, O Dagaeoga.

The lore and belief of my nation and of the whole Hodenosaunee are based upon the experience of many centuries.

And do you not say in your religion that the prayer of the righteous availeth?
Do you think your God, who is the same as my Manitou, intended that only the prayers of the white men should have weight, and that those of the red men should vanish into nothingness like a snowflake melting in the air?
I may not be righteous,--who knows whether he is righteous or not ?--but, at least, I shall pray in a righteous cause." "I don't mock, Tayoga, and maybe the power of your wish, poured in a flood upon me, will help.