But Mackenzie walked on alone to greet them, and shook hands with the nearest man.

Thereupon an elderly man broke from the crowd and took Mackenzie in his arms.

Another then came and paid him the same compliment.

One man to whom he presented his hand broke the string of a handsome robe of sea-otter skin and threw it over Mackenzie.
The chief made signs to the white men to follow him to his house, which Mackenzie found to be of larger dimensions and better materials than any he had yet seen.

"Very clean mats" were spread in this house for the chief, his counsellors, and the two white men.