But even the seasoned old savage was affected by this time.

In vino veritas, said the ancients; and the principle holds good where there is no vinum, but only mild casserie.

Runi now informed me that he had once known a white man, that he was a bad man, which had caused him to say that all white men were bad; even as David, still more sweepingly, had proclaimed that all men were liars.

Now he found that it was not so, that I was a good man.
His friendliness increased with intoxication.

He presented me with a curious little tinder-box, made from the conical tail of an armadillo, hollowed out, and provided with a wooden stopper--this to be used in place of the box I had deprived myself of.