With the unseen powers the prayers of the humble and the lowly avail as much as those of the great and mighty." His eyes bore the rapt and distant expression of the seer, as he continued to gaze steadily at the great silver robe that hung before the face of Areskoui's golden home.

Splendid young warrior that he was, always valiant and skillful in battle, there was a spiritual quality in Tayoga that often showed.

The Onondagas were the priestly nation of the Hodenosaunee and upon him had descended a mantle that was, in a way, the mantle of a prophet.

Robert, so strongly permeated by Indian lore and faith, really believed, for a moment, that his comrade saw into the future.
But not the white youth and the red youth alone bore witness to the great change, the phenomenon even, that Areskoui was creating.

Both Rogers and Willet had looked curiously at the sun, and then had looked again.