"No doubt the eels will understand him; they are no more slippery than he." Save for the vague forms of the trees dimly discerned against the water, the darkness was impenetrable; and except for these guides, even an Indian could scarcely have moved at all.

We followed the bank, keeping just within the shadows; and I was ever scanning the spots of starlit water for that same canoe which I had learned was to go upstream to watch us.
Presently the Siwanois checked me and whispered: "Yonder squats your Wyandotte sentinel." "Where?
I can not see him." "On that flat rock by the deep water, seeming a part of it." "Are you certain ?" "Yes, Loskiel." "You saw him move ?" "No.

But a Siwanois of the Magic Clan makes nothing of darkness.

He sees where he chooses to see.
"Mayaro," said I, "what do you make of this Wyandotte ?" "He has quitted his post without orders for a spot by the deep water.

A canoe could come there, and he could speak to those within it." "That might damn a white soldier, but an Indian is different." "He is a Wyandotte--or says he is." "Yes, but he came with credentials from Fortress Pitt." "Once," said the Sagamore, "he wore his hair in a ridge." "If the Eries learned that from the Nez Perces, why might not the Wyandottes also learn it ?" "He wears the Hawk." "Yes, I know it." "He saw the moccasin tracks in the sand at the other ford, Loskiel, and remained silent." "I know it." "And I believe, also, that he saw the canoe." "Then," said I, "you mean that this Wyandotte is a traitor." "If he be a Wyandotte at all." "What ?" "He may be Huron; he may be a Seneca-Huron.