Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.