I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.