Crossword-Solution: SALVAGES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Master Rolfe was a widower and an ardent desirer of “the conversion of the pagan salvages.” He became interested in the young Indian widow, and though he protests that he married her for the purpose of converting her to Christianity, and rather ungallantly calls her “an unbelieving creature,” it is just possible that if she had not been a pretty and altogether captivating young unbeliever he would have found less personal means for her conversion.

Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodsmen and rustics; that is, a selvaggia and its inhabitants salvages." What Thoreau loved, like all men of healthy minds, was the occasional experience of untamed wildness.

Nay, so great was their progress, that one zealous Padre is reported to have administered the Lord's Supper one Sabbath morning to “over three hundred heathen Salvages.” It was not to be wondered that the Enemy of Souls, being greatly incensed thereat, and alarmed at his decreasing popularity, should have grievously tempted and embarrassed these Holy Fathers, as we shall presently see.

For there can be none lack such diligence in the True Faith, but may see that even the conversion of these pitiful salvages hath a meaning.

The Salvages are rocky islets about midway between Madeira and the Canaries; and they have an Atlantic flora, instead of, as might have been expected, one composed of African immigrants.