"Follow from Mohawk--join 'em at mill. Tuscarora don't like too much travel with Mohawk."
"But, according to your account, there cannot be a great many red-skins in the party, if the white men so much out-number them."
Nick, now, raised his right hand, showing all the fingers and the thumb, at each exhibition, four several times. Then he raised it once, showing only the fore-finger and thumb.
"This makes twenty-two, Nick--Do you include yourself in the number?"
"Wyandotté, a Tuscarora--he count Mohawks"
"True--Are there any other red-men among them?"
"Oneida, so"--holding up four fingers only. After which he held up a single finger, adding--"Onondaga, so."
"Twenty-two Mohawks, four Oneidas, and a single Onondaga, make twenty-seven in all. To these, how many whites am I to add?--You counted them, also?"
The Indian now showed both hands, with all the fingers extended, repeating the gestures four times; then he showed one hand entire, and two fingers on the other.
"Forty-seven. Add these to the red-skins, and we get seventy-four for the total. I had supposed them rather stronger than this, Wyandotté?"