>>9031643I am just mining information from these books that people have forgot. Here is something about Native Americans saving a drowning priest.
" I was already half drowned, when a boat that was on the shore of the river, and two Savages in their canoe, hastened towards us. Nothing was seen of me but a little end of my cassock; they dragged me out by that,..."
http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_05.html