"
"Great Heaven! will you suffer us to be butchered like unresisting
sheep?"
"Hist, Captain, hist; a hot temper is none of the best, when cunning
is more needed than blows. Ah, the Pawnee is a noble boy! it would do
your heart good to see how he draws off from the river, in order to
invite his enemies to cross; and yet, according to my failing sight,
they count two warriors to his one! But as I was saying, little good
comes of haste and thoughtlessness. The facts are so plain that any
child may see into their wisdom. The savages are of many minds as to
the manner of our treatment. Some fear us for colour, and would gladly
let us go, and other some would show us the mercy that the doe
receives from the hungry wolf. When opposition gets fairly into the
councils of a tribe, it is rarely that humanity is the gainer. Now see
you these wrinkled and cruel-minded squaws--No, you cannot see them as
you lie, but nevertheless they are here, ready and willing, like so
many raging she-bears, to work their will upon us so soon as the
proper time shall come.
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