They welcomed the newcomers most heartily.
Beds were made in several of the newly erected cabins; the village was given over for the comfort of the frontiersmen.

Edwards conducted Captain Williamson through the shops and schools, and the old borderman's weather-beaten face expressed a comical surprise.
"Wal, I'll be durned if I ever expected to see a redskin work," was his only comment on the industries.
"We are greatly alarmed by the presence of Girty and his followers," said Edwards.

"We have been warned to leave, but have not been actually threatened.

What do you infer from the appearance here of these hostile savages ?" "It hardly 'pears to me they'll bother you preachers.

They're agin the Christian redskins, that's plain." "Why have we been warned to go ?" "That's natural, seein' they're agin the preachin'." "What will they do with the converted Indians ?" "Mighty onsartin.