That portion of the wilderness was full of game, and, since the coming of the war, deer and bear were increasing rapidly.

Willet often noted how quickly game returned to regions abandoned by man, as if the wild animals promptly told one another the danger had passed.
Joyous shouts came now and then and he knew that they marked the taking of game, but about the middle of the afternoon the hunt drifted entirely away.

A little later Tayoga awoke and sat up.

Then Willet moved slightly and spoke.
"Tandakora's hunters have been all about us while you slept," he said, "but I knew they wouldn't find us." "Dagaeoga and I were safe in the care of the Great Bear," said the Onondaga confidently.

"Tandakora will rage if we tell him some day that we were here, to be taken if he had only seen us.