Their manner is reserved, and their habits are selfish; they beg with unceasing importunity for every thing they see.

I never saw men who either received or bestowed a gift with such bad grace; they almost snatch the thing from you in the one instance, and throw it at you in the other.

It could not be expected that such men should display in their tents, the amiable hospitality which prevails generally amongst the Indians of this country.

A stranger may go away hungry from their lodges, unless he possess sufficient impudence to thrust, uninvited, his knife into the kettle, and help himself.

The owner, indeed, never deigns to take any notice of such an act of rudeness, except by a frown, it being beneath the dignity of a hunter, to make disturbance about a piece of meat.
As some relief to the darker shades of their character it should be stated that instances of theft are extremely rare amongst them.