The mountains, heavy with the great forest, rise all around it.
Its waters are blue or green or silver as the skies over it change.

It is full of islands, each like a gem in a cluster.

I have gone there often, merely to sit on a great cliff a half mile above its waters, and look down on the lake, Andiatarocte, the Andiatarocte of the Hodenosaunee that Manitou gave to us because we strive to serve him.

It is a great and glorious gift to me that I should be allowed to die in battle there and take my flight from its shores to Hayowentha's star, the star on which Hayowentha sits, and from which he talks across infinite space, which is nothing to them, to the great Onondaga chieftain Tododaho, also on his star to which he went more than four centuries ago." The face of the old chief was rapt and mystic.

The black eyes in the bronzed face looked into futurity and infinity.