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Updated: May 11, 2025
The great Mohawk whom we call King Hendrick probably has more intellect than most of the sovereigns on their thrones in Europe. And as for Joseph, the lad there who so gallantly keeps step with the Onondaga, where will you find a white boy who can excel him?
He understood at once that Tayoga was protected by the hunter from any sudden movement by the Ojibway and his great strain relaxed. De Courcelles frowned, but his face cleared in an instant. Robert, watching him now, believed he was not at all averse to a quarrel between the Onondaga and the Ojibway. "It is not a question for me to decide," he replied.
On the third day the trail of the Great Bear was well among the ranges and Tayoga calculated that they could not be many hours behind him, but all the evidence, as they saw it, showed conclusively that he was going toward Lake Champlain. "It seems likely to me," said the Onondaga, "that he left the rangers to seek us, and that Rogers meanwhile would move eastward.
"Tandakora's hunters have been all about us while you slept," he said, "but I knew they wouldn't find us." "Dagaeoga and I were safe in the care of the Great Bear," said the Onondaga confidently. "Tandakora will rage if we tell him some day that we were here, to be taken if he had only seen us. Now Lennox awakes also! O Dagaeoga, you have slept and missed all the great jest."
"Listen!" exclaimed Tayoga, whose face bore a rapt and extraordinary look. The four rumbles again went around the horizon, coming from one point after the other in turn. "It is no ordinary thunder," said the Onondaga in a tone of deep conviction. "What is it, then?" asked Robert. "It is Manitou, Areskoui, Tododaho and Hayowentha talking together.
It was somewhat heavier than the usual weapon of the type and he pronounced it of French make. "Did it come from Quebec, Tayoga?" asked Willet. "Perhaps," replied the young warrior, "but I saw it yesterday." "You did! Where?" "In the belt of Tandakora, the Ojibway." "I thought so," said Robert. "And he threw it with all the strength of a mighty arm," said the Onondaga.
Among the Onondagas of the present day, the name is abridged to Taonhiawagi, or Tahiawagi. Mr. J. V. H. Clarke, in his interesting History of Onondaga, makes the name to have been originally Ta-oun-ya-wat-ha, and describes the bearer as "the deity who presides over fisheries and hunting-grounds."
Of his services to philology, I need not speak in detail. He prepared a lexicon, in seven volumes, of the German and Onondaga languages, an Onondaga Grammar, a Delaware Grammar, a German-Delaware Dictionary, and other works of a similar nature.
"They are many, many hours ahead," replied the Onondaga. "They have made good use of the time we have secured for them." "Another day and night and they should be safe," said Willet. "Tandakora and De Courcelles will scarcely dare follow deep into the fringe of settlements. What is it, Tayoga?"
The chevalier and the priest, disappointed but dignified, left the vale of Onondaga that night, and St. Luc said to Robert that he bore him no ill will because of his defeat.
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