A half hour more and we should have been too late.

But you knew that we were coming, Tayoga ?" "Yes.

I heard the bird sing thrice, but I knew the bird was in the throat of the Great Bear.

I will say this, though, to you, Dagaeoga, that I have heard many birds sing and sing sweetly, but never any so sweetly as the one that sang thrice in the throat of the Great Bear." "It is not hard for me to believe you," said Robert, smiling, "and I can tell you in turn, Tayoga, that your patron saint, Tododaho, must in very truth have watched over you, because when I heard your warning cry and took to flight, hoping for a chance later on to rescue you, I ran within two hours straight into the camp of the rangers and the Mohawks.
You can easily surmise how glad I was to see them, and how quickly we followed Tandakora." "And we'd have attacked sooner," said Willet, "but we could not get up all our force in time.

We've annihilated this band, but I'm sure we did not get Tandakora.