Though his conduct was often in strange contrast with the teachings of that sacred book, he took much pleasure in telling the Indians Bible stories.

He was subsequently killed in some feud with the savages.
Another of his companions, whose real or assumed name was Mitchel, had abandoned his friends and joined the Comanche Indians.

It is a much easier step from the civilized man to the savage than from the savage to the civilized.

Mitchel, with his Indian costume, his plumed head-gear, his Indian weapons, and his fluent Indian speech, could not be distinguished from the savages around him.

The Comanches adopted him into their tribe and accepted him as one of the most prominent of their braves.