But the dauntless youth appeared not to know.
"The lakes I have seen many times," he said.

"They are, as you truly call them, grand and beautiful, and they are the rightful property of the Hodenosaunee, the great League to which my nation belongs.

I shall come to see them many more times all through my life, and when I am an old, old man of ninety summers and winters I shall lay myself down on a high shore of Andiatarocte, and close my eyes while Tododaho bears my spirit away to his star." It is possible that Tandakora's eyes expressed a fleeting admiration.
Savage and treacherous as he was, he respected courage, and the Onondaga had not shown the slightest trace of fear.

Instead, he spoke calmly of a long life to come, as if the shadow of death were not hovering near at that moment.
"Look again," he said.

"Look around all the circle of the world as far as your eyes can reach.