to corpulency with fair Complexion and a pleasant Countenance[.] The women are handsome but their beauty fades early – even children have gray hairs[.] The Nation is in two tribes Kegh-chy-sa and Hey-re-ro-ka – Governed by two Chiefs The Red Calf and the Red Fish and may muster about six hundred Warriors[.] They speak a dialect of the Gros Ventres[.]

The origin of the corbeaux is accounted for in the following manner. Two Brothers of the Gros Ventres named Regh-chy-sa & Hey-re-ro-ka were wicked men[.] They murdered numbers of their own relations, and were in consequence obliged to fly for safety to the distant recesses of the Rocky Mountains[.] Then falling in with the Flat Heads they provided themselves with wives from that nation – who speaking a different language the offsprings of that connection became a new tribe – speaking a new dialect, which being a mixture of the other two is understood by the three Tribes[.] Les Gros Ventres call themselves E-na-sa – while the Corbeauxs Kegh-chy-sa & Hey-re-ro-ka while the corbeaux's call the Gros Ventres E-na-ta and themselves Keigh-chy-ta & Hen-ne-no-ta[.] Most of the words in both Languages begin the same but end differently – as follows –

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