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"The chief (Aliquot by name) who had joined us at our other encampment, and had pursued this day's journey in company, had pitched his tent some three hundred yards in the rear of our camp. "In the evening...a conversation sprung up between the old chief and myself, in which he took occasion to ask me if I were a Christian...Of course I answered in the affirmative...On my return to our camp, some of our party proposed we should while away an hour or so in a game of cards, which was readily assented to. "We had but engaged in our amusement...when old Chief Aliquot made his appearance...and gently taking me by the arm, said, 'Captain--Captain--No good; No good'...I inwardly resolved to abandon card playing forever."
Joel Palmer's Journal
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