In the great silences he seemed to see more clearly, and the path lay straight before him.

Many of his friends thought it an eccentricity, but he knew it was an inheritance from his long stay alone upon the island, a period in his life that had so much effect in molding his character.
It was this ripeness of mind, based upon fullness of information and deep meditation, that made him such a great man in the true sense of the word.

As a speaker he was without a rival either in form or substance in the New World.

It was said everywhere in New York that the famous Alexander Hamilton and the equally skillful Aaron Burr went to the courtroom regularly to study his methods.

Both admitted quite freely in private that they copied his style, though neither was ever able to acquire the wonderful golden voice, the genuine phenomenon that made Lennox so notable.
On one of these occasions, after making a thrilling speech, when he filled the souls of both Hamilton and Burr with despair, a great Onondaga sachem, in the full costume of his nation, said to his friend Willet, once a renowned hunter: "I always knew Dagaeoga could use more words than any one else could find in the biggest dictionary." THE END TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Page numbers in the table of contents and in the transcriber's notes below refer to the original printed version.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of their respective chapters.
The following typographical errors in the original printed version have been noted below and corrected only where indicated.
CHARACTERS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES The character Louis de Galissonniere appears here as "GALISONNIERE." Although he appears only at one other point in this book, the correct spelling comes from his more frequent appearances in another novel of the series, _The Masters of The Peaks_.
The captain of the _Hawk_, Stuart Whyte, is listed here as "WHITE." The lieutenant of the _Hawk_, John Lanham, is listed here as "LATHAM.".