Why do they journey so far towards the setting sun?
Have they lost the path, or are these the women of the white warriors, that I hear are wading up the river of 'the troubled waters ?'" "Neither.

They, who wade the Missouri, are the warriors of my great father, who has sent them on his message; but we are peace-runners.

The white men and the red are neighbours, and they wish to be friends .-- Do not the Omahaws visit the Loups, when the tomahawk is buried in the path between the two nations ?" "The Omahaws are welcome." "And the Yanktons, and the burnt-wood Tetons, who live in the elbow of the river, 'with muddy water,' do they not come into the lodges of the Loups and smoke ?" "The Tetons are liars!" exclaimed the other.

"They dare not shut their eyes in the night.

No; they sleep in the sun.