'Twas most likely they who came to your people.
Did they do harm to your fathers ?" "They passed away in peace," he continued, using the language with greater ease as he proceeded, "for we were then strong, and of courage in battle; the fire bright on our altars.

Nor did we look again upon any white face for so long a time that this visit became no more than a tradition among the people.

More and more did the fathers believe this Tonty was a visitant from the Sun--many there were who worshipped him as a god.

When he left he said he would come again, and with every sunrise the eyes of my people were turned in watching up the river.
Then, when I was but a child, there came to our village canoes from below, from the way of the salt water.

They did land, unmolested of our people, who supposed Tonty had come back; fair-faced men with yellow hair and beards and dressed in shining metal from head to heel.
I was at the shore with the others when they came, and heard them speak in this tongue, and call themselves _Francais_.