He was treacherous, revengeful, and cruel beyond description.

Much as he loved war (and war was his chief occupation), the fair and open fight had no charm for him.
To his mind it was madness to take the scalp of an enemy at the risk of his own, when he might waylay him in an ambush or shoot him with an arrow from behind a tree.

He was never so happy as when, at the dead of night, he roused his sleeping victims with an unearthly yell and massacred them by the light of their burning home.
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The French and the Indians.%--The ways in which French and English colonists acted towards the Indian are highly characteristic, and account for much in our history.
From the day when Champlain, in 1609, joined his Huron-Algonquin neighbors and went with them on the warpath against the Iroquois, the French held to the policy of making friends with the Indians.

No pains were spared to win them to the cause of France.