Then we'll know how to proceed." "Well spoken, Dagaeoga.

Come, we'll go through the forest as fast as we may." The cave had been a most welcome place.

It had served in turn as a home, a hospital and a fort, and, in every capacity, it had served well, but both Robert and Tayoga were intensely glad to be out again in the open world, where the winds were blowing, where vast masses of green rested and pleased the eye, and where the rustling of leaves and the singing of birds soothed the ear.
"It's a wonderful, a noble wilderness!" said Robert.

"I'm glad I'm here, even if there are Frenchmen and Indians in it, seeking our lives.

Why, Tayoga, I can feel myself growing in such an atmosphere! Tell me, am I not an inch taller than I was when I left that hollow in the rocks ?" "You do look taller," said the Onondaga, "but maybe it's because you stand erect now.