They are also given to predatory inroads into the territories of their enemies, and sometimes of their friendly neighbors.

Should they fall upon a band of inferior force, or upon a village, weakly defended, they act with the ferocity of true poltroons, slaying all the men, and carrying off the women and children as slaves.

As to the property, it is packed upon horses which they bring with them for the purpose.

They are mean and paltry as warriors, and altogether inferior in heroic qualities to the savages of the buffalo plains on the east side of the mountains.
A great portion of their time is passed in revelry, music, dancing, and gambling.

Their music scarcely deserves the name; the instruments being of the rudest kind.