Yet he divined much of it from the meeting of the fiery Wyandots with the highly developed and warlike power of the Six Nations.
Thayendanegea was talking now, and Timmendiquas, silent and grave, was listening.

The Mohawk approached his subject indirectly through the trope, allegory, and simile that the Indian loved.

He talked of the unseen deities that ruled the life of the Iroquois through mystic dreams.

He spoke of the trees, the rocks, and the animals, all of which to the Iroquois had souls.

He called on the name of the Great Spirit, which was Aieroski before it became Manitou, the Great Spirit who, in the Iroquois belief, had only the size of a dwarf because his soul was so mighty that he did not need body.
"This land is ours, the land of your people and mine, oh, chief of the brave Wyandots," he said to Timmendiquas.