He enjoyed their perplexity, finding in the situation a certain sardonic humor.
"The Ojibway and the Frenchman would give a good deal to know just what is in the thickets here," he whispered to Tayoga.

"But the longer they must take in finding out the better I like it." "They will delay far into the afternoon," said Tayoga.

"The warriors and the Frenchmen have great patience.

It would be better for the Americans and the English if they, too, like the French, learned the patience of the Indians." "The birds gave us a warning that they had come.

You don't think it possible, Tayoga, that they will also give the savages warning that we are here ?" "No, Dagaeoga, we have been lying in the thickets so long now, and have been so quiet that the birds have grown used to us.