Closer home does it go than a rammer; and fighting with steel is a play without ever an interlude.

There are points more deadly than bullets; and stocks packed full of subtle tubes, whence comes an impulse more reliable than powder.
Binding our prisoners lengthwise across the boat's seats, we rowed for the canoe, making signs of amity.
Now, if there be any thing fitted to make a high tide ebb in the veins, it is the sight of a vanquished foe, inferior to yourself in powers of destruction; but whom some necessity has forced you to subdue.

All victories are not triumphs, nor all who conquer, heroes.
As we drew near the canoe, it was plain, that the loss of their sire had again for the instant overcome the survivors.

Raising hands, they cursed us; and at intervals sent forth a low, piercing wail, peculiar to their race.

As before, faint cries were heard from the tent.