They also decorate their hair with buttons.
The Crees procure guns from the traders, and use them in preference to the bow and arrow; and from them the Stone Indians often get supplied, either by stealth, gaming, or traffic.

Like the rest of their nation, these Crees are remarkably fond of spirits, and would make any sacrifice to obtain them.

I regretted to find the demand for this pernicious article had greatly increased within the few last years.

The following notice of these Indians is extracted from Dr.Richardson's journal: "The Asseenaboine, termed by the Crees Asseeneepoytuck, or Stone Indians, are a tribe of Sioux, who speak a dialect of the Iroquois, one of the great divisions under which the American philologists have classed the known dialects of the Aborigines of North America.

The Stone Indians, or, as they name themselves, _Eascab_, originally entered this part of the country under the protection of the Crees, and in concert with them attacked and drove to the westward the former inhabitants of the banks of the Saskatchawan.