5/57 "It is mostly in heavy forest, and, since the war has gone on so long and the settlers have gone away, there has been a great increase in the game." "Aye, I know there'll be no trouble on that point. If our own supplies give out it won't take long to find a deer or a bear. It's a grand country in here, Tayoga, and sometimes it seems a pity to one that it should ever be settled by white people, or, for that matter, by red either. Let it remain a wilderness, and let men come in, just a little while every year, to hunt." "Great Bear talks wisdom, but it will not be done his way. Men have been coming here a long time now to fight and not to hunt. |