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CHAPTER 3: The Life Of Adventure
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Strangest of all is that white men should call upon those terrible savage Indians to war with them against their white brethren.

That, as my good uncle says, is a disgrace to humanity.
Ah! I would you could have heard him speak to the officers at yonder fort since his arrival there.

They brought in a few prisoners a few days after we came.

They were going to cook and eat them--to treat them--oh, I cannot think of it! My uncle went to the officers, and bid them interfere; but they only shrugged their shoulders, and said they must not anger the Indians, or they would desert, and become even more troublesome than they are already.

He got them out of their hands himself, and sent them safely to Montreal; and oh, how he spoke to the French soldiers and officers afterwards! He said that such wicked disregard of the bond betwixt Christian and Christian must inevitably draw down the wrath of Heaven upon those who practised it, and that no cause could prosper where such things were permitted.
"I have heard things since I have been here that have filled my heart with sorrow and anger.


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