Robert had been educated carefully at Fort Orange, which men were now calling Albany, and Tayoga and the hunter were equally fastidious.
"The deer is the friend of both the red man and the white," said Willet, appreciatively.

"In the woods he feeds us and clothes us, and then his horn tips the arrow with which you kill him, Tayoga." "It was so ordered by Manitou," said the young Onondaga, earnestly.
"The deer was given to us that we might live." "And that being the case," said Willet, "we'll cook all you and Robert have brought and take it with us in the canoe.

Since we keep on going north the time will come when we won't have any chance for hunting." The fire had now formed a great bed of coals and the task was not hard.
It was all cooked by and by and they stowed it away wrapped in the two pieces of skin.

Then Willet and Tayoga decided to examine the country together, leaving Robert on guard beside the canoe.
Robert had no objection to remaining behind.

Although circumstances had made him a lad of action he was also contemplative by nature.