OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. Ixxi

the trading eftablifhments. Thofe who do, choofe fuch eftablifhments as
are next to their country, The Stone-Indians here, are the fame people
as the Stone-Indians, or Affiniboins, who inhabit the river of that name al-
ready defcribed, and both are detached tribes from the Nadawafis, who in-
habit the Weftern fide of the Miffiffippi, and lower part of the Miflifoury,
The Fall, or Big-bellied Indians, are from the South-Eaftward alfo, and
of a people who inhabit the plains from the North bend of the laft men-
tioned river, latitude 47. 92. North, longitude 101. 25. Weft, to the
South bend of the Affiniboin River, to the number of feven hundred
men. Some of them occafionally come to the latter river to exchange
drefled buffalo robes, and bad wolf-{kins for articles of no great
value,

_ The Picaneaux, Black-Feet, and Blood-Indians, are a diftin& people,
fpeak a language of their own, and, [ have reafon to think, are travel-
ling North-Weflward, as well as the others juft mentioned; nor have
T heard of any Indians with whofe language, that which they {peak has
any affinity. ‘They are the people who deal in horfes and take them
upon the war-parties towards Mexico; from which, it is evident, that
the country to the South-Eaft of them, confills of plains, as thofe
animals could not well be conduéted through an hilly and woody coun-
try, interfected by waters.

The Sarfees, who are but few in number, appear from their lan-
guage, to come on the contrary from the North-Weftward, and are
of the fame people as the Rocky-Mountain Indians defcribed in my

fecond