If you sink us it's likely the letters will go down with us." "It's another matter if you are on such a mission, but I must demand once more your names." "The highest in rank among us is the young chief, or coming chief, Tayoga, of the clan of the Bear, of the nation Onondaga, of the great League of the Hodenosaunee.

Next comes David Willet, a famous hunter and scout, well known throughout the provinces of New York and Massachusetts and even in Canada, and often called by his friends, the Iroquois, the Great Bear.

As for me, I am Robert Lennox, of Albany and sometimes of New York, without rank or office." The officer abated his haughty manner.

The answer seemed to please him.
"That surely is explicit enough," he said.

"I am Louis de Galisonniere, a captain of the battalion Languedoc, stationed for the present at Montreal and charged with the duty of watching the river for all doubtful characters, in which class I was compelled to put the three of you, if you gave no explanations." "Galisonniere! That is a distinguished name.