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Updated: May 11, 2025
They may send out a warrior or two to hunt, and the others may sit at a distance and wait a week for us to come out. At least it looks that way to a 'possum up a tree. What do you think of it, Tayoga?" "The Great Bear is right," replied the Onondaga. "He is always right when he is not wrong." "Come now, Tayoga, are you making game of me?"
The roaring in his ears was gone, his nerves became amazingly steady, and every stroke with his paddle was long and finished, a work of art. Four or five minutes of such toil, and Tayoga rested on his paddle. Robert imitated him. "Now we will take our ease and listen," said the Onondaga.
This singular person who was destined to obtain such a spiritual sway over the descendants of the ancient Iroquois was Ga-ne-o-di-yo, or "Handsomelake." a Seneca sachem of the highest class, he was born at the Indian village of Ga-no-wau-ges, near Avon, about the year 1735, and died at Onondaga in 1815, where he happened to be on one of his pastoral visits.
"I was here once before, three years ago," said Willet. "Others have been here much later," said the Onondaga. "What do you mean, Tayoga?" "My white brother is not looking. Let him turn his eyes to the left. He will see two wild flowers broken off at the stem, a feather which has not fallen from the plumage of a bird, because the quill is painted, and two traces of footsteps in the earth."
But the Senecas were not wise, and they took up the hatchet. "This is the word of the Oneidas to the chiefs of the Long House: The Seneca has put his foot in the trap. Then shall the Oneida and Onondaga and Cayuga and Mohawk rush after, that they too may put in their feet where they can get away only by gnawing off the bone?
The canoe glided swiftly on toward the wider reaches of the lake, and the Onondaga never relaxed his watchfulness, for an instant. He was poised in the canoe, every nerve and muscle ready to leap in a second into activity, while his ears were strained for the sounds of paddles or oars. Now he relied, as often before, more upon hearing than sight. Presently a sound came, and it was that of oars.
"It is a call that Dagaeoga knows," he said. "We have used it often in the forest." In a few minutes the reply, exactly the same, faint but clear, came back from the north. When the sound died away, Tayoga imitated the bird again, and the second reply came as before. "Now we will go forward and shake the hand of Dagaeoga," said the Onondaga.
Yet it would be almost impossible to take the young Englishman from the center of the Indian camp. Tayoga knew too what grief his news would cause to young Lennox, between whom and Grosvenor a great friendship had been formed. For the matter of that, both the Onondaga and the hunter also were very partial to the Englishman. The warriors presently untied Grosvenor's hands and gave him some food.
He appeared to devote his chief attention to them, that he might afterwards make them examples to the others, in arts and wisdom. They were foremost in the overthrow of the Stonish Giants and the killing of the great Serpent. To be an Onondaga was the highest honor.
It may be remembered that some of the Iroquois entrapped at Fort Frontenac had been given to their Christian relatives in the mission villages. Here they had since remained. Denonville thought that he might use them as messengers to their heathen countrymen, and he sent one or more of them to Onondaga with gifts and overtures of peace.
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