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equally inimical to white people, which has been 

 often witnessed by their attacks on the settlements 

 at Saint Louis, the lead mines, and Saint Gen- 

 evieve. They never fall upon these settle- 

 ments without making great depredations, and 

 mostly get off without suffering much injury them- 

 selves. But the traders, when they have once 

 entered their villages, are perfectly safe, and are 

 treated with much respect and hospitality while 

 there. Sometimes, however, in going and 

 returning, they will fall upon, and rob them. 



Although they are great hunters and distin- 

 guished warriors, and often ramble far in these 

 excursions, they live in villages, and raise corn, 

 beans, squashes, pumpkins, and melons. They 

 are proud and overbearing, viewing all other 

 nations with contempt. In their war expeditions, 

 they are courageous, patient, and persevering ; 

 enduring great fatigue and hardship with the ut- 

 most fortitude. They delight so much in blood, 

 that no sufferings are too great to encounter, if it 

 be necessary in making their attacks upon their 

 enemy by surprise. They generally kill all their 

 prisoners, except the children ; and these they 

 will sometimes adopt as their own. No nation 

 has been so able to withstand them, as the roving 

 bands of the Sioux. Having no settled villages, 

 they are always prepared for war, and encounter 

 their enemy to more advantage. They sometimes 

 engage in offensive wars, and venture to make 

 attacks on the Osage villages. 



