But the chief of many winters hath said it; the hedge-hogs and the foxes may dig the earth, but the eyes of the Shoshones are always turned towards their enemies in the woods, or the buffaloes in the plains." "Yet the will of Nanawa must be done, but not by a Shoshone.

We will give him plenty of squaws and dogs; we will bring him slaves from the Umbiquas, the Cayuses, and the Wallah Wallahs.

They shall grow the corn and the tobacco while we hunt; while we go to fetch more slaves, even in the big mountains, or among the dogs of the south, the Wachinangoes.

I will send the vermilion[5] to my young warriors, they will paint their faces and follow me on the war-path.

I have spoken!" [Footnote 5: When a chief wishes to go to war, he sends to his warriors some leaves of tobacco covered with vermilion.