"The mind of the Ojibway is a fitful thing, but always it is wild and lawless.

He longs, night and day, for scalps, and he covets ours most.
It is because we have defeated the attempts he has made already." "Do you think he has gone ahead with the intention of ambushing us?
Would he dare ?" "Yes, he would dare.

If he were to succeed he would have little to fear.
A bullet in one of our hearts, fired from cover on the bank, and then the wilderness would swallow him up and hide him from pursuit.

He could go to the country around the last and greatest of the lakes, where only the white trapper or explorer has been." "It gives me a tremendously uncomfortable feeling, Tayoga, to think that bloodthirsty wretch may be waiting for a shot at us.

How are we to guard against him ?" "We must go fast and watch as we go.