Tayoga, who was examining the trail, suddenly raised his head and said:

I discovered it when I was on my knees examining the trail here.

By examining the trail it seemed that they had taken the back-track in search of their homes.

The Onondaga had stopped and, kneeling down, he was examining the trail as minutely as he could in the dusk.

It is our man, he cried, examining the trail carefully and following it up the hill and out on to the plateau.