166 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
The Stone Indians keep in amity with their 
neighbours the Crees from motives of interest ; 
and the two tribes unite in determined hostility 
against the nations dwelling to the westward, 
which are genérally called Shove Indians—a term 
of reproach applied by the Crees to those tribes 
against whom they have waged successful wars. 
The Slave Indians are said greatly to resemble 
the Stone Indians, being equally desperate and 
daring in their acts of aggression and dishonesty 
towards the traders. 
These parties go to war almost every summer, 
and sometimes muster three or four hundred 
horsemen on each side, Their leaders, in ap- 
proaching the foe, exercise all the caution of the 
most skilful generals ; and whenever either party 
considers that it has gained the best ground, or 
finds it can surprise the other, the attack is made: 
They advance at once to close 
