Let history speak, and it will tell you that deeds of darkest hue have been perpetrated in so-called civilized though pagan lands.

Civilization is like the polish that beautifies inferior furniture, which water will wash off if it be but _hot enough_.

Christianity resembles dye, which permeates every fibre of the fabric, and which nothing can eradicate.
The success of the trappers in procuring beaver here was great.

In all sorts of creeks and rivers they were found.

One day they came to one of the curious rivers before mentioned, which burst suddenly out of a plain, flowed on for several miles, and then disappeared into the earth as suddenly as it had risen.