Tayoga, you and Robert oughtn't to be long in finding the game we want." "I think like the Great Bear that we'll not have to look far for deer," said the Onondaga, "and I leave my rifle with you while I take my bow and arrows." "I'll keep your rifle for you, Tayoga, and if I didn't have anything else to do I'd go along with you two lads and see you use the bow.

I know that you're a regular king with it." Tayoga said nothing, although he was secretly pleased with the compliment, and took from the canoe a long slender package, wrapped carefully in white, tanned deerskin, which he unrolled, disclosing the bow, _waano_.
The young Onondaga's bow, like everything he wore or used, was of the finest make, four feet in length, and of such powerful wood that only one of great strength and equal skill could bend it.

He brought it to the proper curve with a sudden, swift effort, and strung it.

There he tested the string with a quick sweeping motion of his hand, making it give back a sound like that of a violin, and seemed satisfied.
He also took from the canoe the quiver, _gadasha_, which was made of carefully dressed deerskin, elaborately decorated with the stained quills of the porcupine.

It was two feet in length and contained twenty-five arrows, _gano_.
The arrows were three feet long, pointed with deer's horn, each carrying two feathers twisted about the shaft.