But now they would kill the Pale-faces, and they would see what colour was the blood of cowards.
When dead, they could not give any more rifles, or powder, to the Shoshones, who would then bury themselves like prairie dogs in their burrows, and never again dare to cross the path of a Crow." The Prince replied to the chief with scorn.

"The Crows," he said, "ought not to speak so loud, lest they should be heard by the Shoshone braves, and lies should never be uttered in open air.

What were the Crows before the coming of the white men, on the shores of the Buona Ventura?
They had no country of their own, for one part of it had been taken by the Black-feet, and the other by the Arrapahoes and the Shoshones.

Then the Crows were like doves hunted by the hawks of the mountains.

They would lie concealed in deep fissures of the earth, and never stir but during night, so afraid were they of encountering a Shoshone.