The great medicine-man cast his missile first; it swept through the air like a shaft of lightning, striking the great rock with a force that shattered it.
The dream had not yet come to the white man; only one great Indian medicine-man knew that some day a great camp for Palefaces would lie between False Creek and the Inlet.
'But Yaada's mother sat apart and thought and dreamed, as mothers will. She said to herself, 'The great medicine-man has power, has vast riches, and wonderful magic, why not give her to him?