"What is it?" asked Will, "a mammoth or a mastodon?"
"Don't know mammoth and don't know mastodon," replied Pehansan, shaking his head, "but do know it is the biggest of all animals my eyes have ever seen."
"It is a woods or mountain buffalo that has far outgrown its kind, just as there are giants among men," said Roka.
"If this were a man and he bore the same relation to his species he would be thirteen or fourteen feet tall," said Will, his voice still shaking a little. "Why, he'd make most elephants ashamed to be so puny and small."
"He, too, like the bears, came out of the far North," said Pehansan. "Maybe there is not another in the world like him."
"That hide of his is thick with arrows," said Will, "but in so big a skin I don't think the arrow holes will amount to much. We ought to have it. We must carry so grand a trophy back to the village to-night."
Roka shook his head.
"Not to-night," he said. "We three be strong, but we cannot move the body of this mighty beast, and so we cannot take off the skin."
"I will go to the village and bring many people," said Pehansan.
Again the wise Roka shook his head.