The enemy has left behind him no skirmishers or rear guard.

It may be that we shall not overtake them until we approach the lake or reach it." "How do you know that we will overtake them at all, Tayoga?
They may go so fast that we can't come up." "I know it, Dagaeoga, because if they are led by St.Luc, and I think they are, they will not try to get away.

If they believe we are not about to overtake them they will wait for us at some place they consider good." "You're probably right, Tayoga, and it's likely that we'll be in battle before night.

One would think there is enough country here on this continent for the whole world without having the nations making war over any part of it.

As I have said before, here we are fighting to secure for an English king or a French king mountains and lakes and rivers and forests which neither of them will ever see, and of the existence of which, perhaps, they don't know." "And as I have told you before, Dagaeoga, the mountains and lakes and rivers and forests for which the English and French kings have their people fight, belong to neither, but to the great League of the Hodenosaunee and other red nations." "That's true, Tayoga.