Perhaps it will weld our colonies together and make of them a great nation, a nation great like the Hodenosaunee." "I think it will come to pass, Dagaeoga.

The mighty League was formed by hardship and self-denial.

A people who have had to fight long and tenaciously for themselves grows strong.

So it has been said often by the fifty sachems who are old and very wise, and who know all that it is given to men to know.

Did you hear anything stirring in the thicket, Dagaeoga ?" "I did, Tayoga.