He let it be thought that the motive of the slaver in seizing him was merely to get a likely lad for sale on a West India plantation.

But his anger against Van Zoon grew.

He was not one to cherish wrath, but on this point it was concentrated, and he intended to have a settlement.

It was not meant that he should be lost, it was not meant that Adrian Van Zoon should triumph.

He had been seized and carried away twice, and each time, when escape seemed impossible, a hand mightier than that of man had intervened in his favor.
He spoke a little of his thought once or twice when he stood on the deck of the _Hawk_ on moonlight nights with Captain Whyte and Lieutenant Lanham.
"You can't live with the Indians as much as I have," he said, "especially with such a high type of Indian as the Iroquois, without acquiring some of their beliefs which, after all, are about the same as our own Christian religion.