The Sagamore said gravely:

“Uncas went naked to the Holder of the Heavens.”

It was a wonderful speech for a Sagamore and an Algonquin, for he used the Iroquois term to designate the Holder of Heaven. The perfect courtesy of a Christian gentleman could go no further. And I thought of our trivial and petty and warring sects, and was silent and ashamed.

The Wyandotte wiped his powerful jaw with a handful of dead leaves, and looked coldly around at the little circle of men who differed with one another so profoundly in their religious beliefs.

“Is this then the hour and the place to discuss such matters, and irritate the Unseen?”

All eyes were instantly turned on