The tapop was starting the council-fire, and he used for the purpose that venerable implement of primitive times, the fire-drill.
Take heed, you Mohawks, and you Cayuga war-chiefs and sachems, that you do no violence to this council-fire!
The council-fire that night was built out on the point instead of in the great stone fireplace.
A council was immediately called; the trappers ranged themselves on one side of the council-fire and the Indians on the other.
At the council-fire he selected his place with especial care, and saw that no one approached from behind without his knowing it.
