I have been ashamed of my countrymen! I have felt that our foes are nobler than ourselves, and that God must surely arise and fight for them if these abominations are suffered to continue." The Rangers were silent; they well knew what she meant.

The French were culpably weak where the Indians were concerned, permitting them almost without remonstrance to burn their prisoners from the English lines, and even after engagements leaving the English dead and wounded to the Indians and the wolves, though the English always buried the French dead with their own when they had been in like circumstances, and had showed kindness to their wounded.
"The Indians are the plague of the lives of men and officers alike," continued the girl, breaking forth in animated fashion.
"They eat up a week's rations in three days, and come clamouring for more.

They make rules for the English which they will not observe themselves.

They are insolent and disgusting and treacherous.

Oh, I cannot think how our people bear it! I would sooner lose all than win through using such tools.