"It would have been a terrible thing to have left the little innocent to be brought up among the savages and taught all their heathen ways, though they, no doubt, would have made much of her, and treated her like a little queen," said Uncle Donald to me; "so I at once closed with the chief's offer.  Forthwith, a little girl, some five years of age, was brought out from a small hut built of boughs, close to where the party was sitting.  She appeared almost paralysed with terror; but when, looking up, she saw that Uncle Donald was a white man, and that he was gazing compassionately at her, clinging to his hand, she entreated him by her looks to save her from the savages.  She had been so overcome by the terrible scenes she had witnessed that she was unable to speak."