"The man who had captured me treated me kindly, and fed me well.  At first I thought he might have had his reasons (and very unsatisfactory they would have been to me) for doing the latter; but this idea I banished (as it was not a pleasant fine, and took away my appetite) when I found that he did not partake of the horrible banquets with his countrymen.  He was constantly visited also in the evening by a chief, who evidently looked on them with disgust, and always looked at me most kindly, and spoke to me in the kindest tones, though I could not understand what he said.  One evening, after he and my master had been talking some time, he got up and made the sign of the cross on my brow, and then on his own, and then on that of my master.  Then I guessed that I must have fallen among Christians, and that this was the reason I was treated so kindly.  I understood also by the signs he made that you all were well, and that he would do his best to protect you.