Peigans," began Cameron, who determined to make no
allusion to his knowledge that they were a war party,
"for they wish to be friends with all the children of the
woods and prairies. They wish to trade with them--to
exchange blankets, and guns, and beads, and other goods
which the Peigans require, for furs of animals which the
Pale-faces require."
"Ho! ho!" exclaimed the Indians, which expression
might be translated, "Hear! hear!"
"But," continued Cameron, "we wish to have no war.