You see what is left today!" "Your house is burnt down, as we plainly see.

Have you lost aught beside?
Has human blood been spilt ?" "The corpse of my venerable father, and that of a bold baby boy, lie beneath yon heap of ruins which made their funeral pyre.

In yonder grave lie the mingled corpses of my brother's wife and four fair children, hacked to death and half burnt by the savages.

And yet this work is not the work of savages alone.

With them we have dwelt at peace these many years.