About eight o'clock
I made him known to the Sagamore and to the two Oneidas , who received him with a grave sincerity which expressed very plainly their respect for a people of which the Mole had been for them a respectable example . Like the Mole , the Yellow Moth wore no paint except a white cross limned on his breast over a clan sign indecipherable . And if , in truth , there had ever really been a totem under the white paint I do not know , for like the Algonquins , these peoples had but a loose political , social , religious , and tribal organization , which never approached the perfection of the Iroquois system in any manner or detail . About eight o'clock came Captain Carbury , of the 11th Pennsylvania , to us , and we immediately set out , marching swiftly up the Chemung River , the Sagamore and the Yellow Moth leading , then Captain Carbury and myself , then the Oneidas . Behind us in the dusk we saw the Light Troops falling in , who always lead the army . All marched without packs , blankets , horses , or any impedimenta . And , though the distance was not very great , so hilly , rocky , and rough was the path through the hot , dark night , and so narrow and difficult were the mountain passes , that we were often obliged to rest the men .