"That may be," he answered; "but I know their treacherous nature. Depend upon it, when they all eat together, and talk over the number of their warriors who have been slain, they will wreak their vengeance upon us.  Are you prepared to die, Roger?  We must make up our minds for that, and we may consider ourselves fortunate if we are not scalped and flayed first.  I have often read, with very little concern, of the dreadful tortures the Redskins inflict on their prisoners, little dreaming that I should ever have to suffer the same."