Boone, who knew the Indian nature, said the honesty and the simplicity of the Indian were remarkable.

Kenton said he had been happy among the Indians.

Col.
Zane had many Indian friends.

Isaac Zane, who lived most of his life with the Wyandots, said the American redman had been wrongfully judged a bloodthirsty savage, an ignorant, thieving wretch, capable of not one virtue.

He said the free picturesque life of the Indians would have appealed to any white man; that it had a wonderful charm, and that before the war with the whites the Indians were kind to their prisoners, and sought only to make Indians of them.