Ferocious Indians roamed about and cut off all stragglers, sometimes those of their own French or Canadian allies.

Once they came upon the trail of Tandakora.

They found the dead bodies of four English soldiers lying beside an abandoned farm house, and Tayoga, looking at the traces in the earth, told the tale as truly as if he had been there.
"Tandakora and his warriors stood behind these vines," he said, going to a little arbor.

"See their traces and in the center of them the prints left by the gigantic footsteps of the Ojibway chief.

The house had been plundered by some one, maybe by the warriors themselves, before the soldiers came.