They are still the allies of the Crees, but have now become more numerous than their former protectors.

They exhibit all the bad qualities ascribed to the Mengwe or Iroquois, the stock whence they are sprung.

Of their actual number I could obtain no precise information, but it is very great.

The Crees who inhabit the plains, being fur hunters, are better known to the traders.
"They are divided into two distinct bands, the Ammisk-watcheethinyoowuc or Beaver Hill Crees, who have about forty tents, and the Sackawee-thinyoowuc, or Thick Wood Crees, who have thirty-five.

The tents average nearly ten inmates each, which gives a population of seven hundred and fifty to the whole.
"The nations who were driven to the westward by the Eascab and Crees are termed, in general, by the latter, Yatchee-thinyoowuc, which has been translated Slave Indians, but more properly signifies Strangers.
"They now inhabit the country around Fort Augustus, and towards the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and have increased in strength until they have become an object of terror to the Eascab themselves.