By and by they struck into the twenty-mile bush beyond the valley farms.

In the second day of their travel they passed an Albany trader going east with small kegs of rum on a pack of horses and toward evening came to an Indian village.

They were both at the head of the herd.
"Stop," said Solomon as they saw the smoke of the fires ahead.

"We got to behave proper." He put his hands to his mouth and shouted a loud halloo, which was quickly answered.

Then two old men came out to him and the talk which followed in the Mohawk dialect was thus reported by the scout to his companion: "We wish to see the chief," said Solomon.