Bringwer on the Region of the Mississippi, §c. 31 
to have sprung from these, and their language differs very 
little from that of the other two. All three tribes abound 
with tall, well-proportioned, and large men. Both in their 
physical and moral faculties, they are much superior to wit 
the — tribes of Indians oe North America. fer 
mongst the oO ere e a 
glers, who now and ae td ti broad, but in 
their villages, as in those of the other two tribes, : a stranger 
is in more security than he would be in any civilized city. 
Their hospitality exceeds all bounds; they act as if nothing 
was their own, and the best way to please them, is to refuse 
Pes Sones them. — When a trader P stops” ‘his boat on the 
Ark g place, forty-six miles from their vil- 
a to! his | 
guard to. tke cade er deca em y boat, sometimes for four 
thonths; and they pack the goods themselves, di the 
privilege of lodging the people of the boat, whom they di- 
vide among them. The merchant is reserved for the princi- 
a chief, who gives him a warrior to guard his person and his 
s, besides many other attentions, which, with delicate al- 
oer alinge wooden bom full of provisions, from ev 
ere : paegichas: oe in slices and plated to ‘ rs 
sweet corn which they boil when green, and dry io tas an 
buffaloe’s dry meat, and bear’s meat, or fresh venison and 
turkeys. All the other I ndian tribes, except aed Osages, 
eat beaver; the latter have a tradition, by whic pen sein 
tend to have sprung from a female beaver and a snake. _ 
They, like most of the other tribes, believe i in the’ aaae 
two or three men > ean bomebaek pursue - 2 
the circle withthe their bows and arrows, (for they never kill a 
huffaloe with a gun.) and rail sikoew kel | they first select 
