We were then in a dangerous helpless situation exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts not a white man in the country but ourselves.
When I see someone who is starved they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny it looks like you're near death.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one and when I hear of one that is dying it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.