But I had thought that the law of England ran here, at least where white men are concerned." He saw the eyes of the great savage flash when he mentioned the Hodenosaunee, and he inferred at once that he was a bitter enemy of the Iroquois.

Some of the tribes had a hereditary hatred toward one another more ferocious than that which they felt against the whites.
The Frenchman smiled again, and swept his hand in a graceful curve toward the green expanse.
"It is true," he said, "that the forest is yet lord over these lands, but in the future I think the lilies of France will wave here.

You perhaps have an equal faith that the shadow of the British flag will be over the wilderness, but it would be most unfitting for you and me to quarrel about it now.

I infer from the canoe and the three paddles that you did not come here alone." "Two friends are with me.

They have gone into the forest on a brief expedition.