Well, my son was left to me and with him I must be satisfied; at the least he knew nothing of his mother's shame.

Oh! I thought to myself as I climbed the teocalli, oh! that I could but escape far from this accursed land and bear him with me to the English shores, ay, and Otomie also, for there she might forget that once she had been a savage.
Alas! it could scarcely be! Coming to the temple, I and those with me told the good tidings to our companions, who received it silently.

Men of a white race would have rejoiced thus to escape, for when death is near all other loss seems as nothing.

But with these Indian people it is not so, since when fortune frowns upon them they do not cling to life.

These men of the Otomie had lost their country, their wives, their wealth, their brethren, and their homes; therefore life, with freedom to wander whither they would, seemed no great thing to them.