But let us give the account of the country as rendered by Arapooish, a Crow chief, to Mr. Robert Campbell, of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. If you go to the south, you have to wander over great barren plains j the water is warm and bad, and you meet the fever and ague. On the Columbia they are poor and dirty, paddle about in canoes, and eat fish.
Fish is poor food.
A Crow's dog would not drink such water. The Crow country is exactly in the right place. When the summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snow-banks. In the autumn, when your horses are fat and strong from the mountain pastures, you can go down into the plains and hunt the buffalo, or trap beaver on the streams. The Crow country is exactly in the right place.