The wild man and the civilized man do not live well together, their habits and dispositions are so contrary the one to the other.

We are open, and they are cunning, and they suspect our openness to be only a greater degree of cunning than their own--they do not understand us.

They are taught to be revengeful, and we are taught to forgive our enemies.

So you see that what is a virtue with the savage, is a crime with the Christian.

If the Indian could be taught the word of God, he might be kind and true, and gentle as well as brave." It was with conversations like this that our poor wanderers wiled away their weariness.