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 approaching 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 quarters, and the slaughter is consequently great, though the battle may be short.

The prisoners of either sex are seldom spared, but slain on the spot with wanton cruelty.

The dead are scalped, and he is considered the bravest person who bears the greatest number of scalps from the field.