Two hundred tents or _tipis_ were pitched in two parallel rows, and down this avenue marched Anthony Hendry, gazed at silently by many Blackfeet Indians until he reached the large house or lodge of their great chief, at the end of the avenue of tents.

This lodge was large enough to contain fifty persons.

The chief received him seated on the sacred skin of a white buffalo.

The pipe of peace was then produced and passed round in silence, each person taking a ceremonial puff.
Boiled bison beef was then brought to the guests in baskets made of willow branches.

Hendry told the great chief of the Blackfeet that he had been sent by the great leader of the white men at Hudson Bay to invite the Blackfeet Indians to come to these eastern waters in the summertime, and bring with them beaver and wolf skins, for which they would get, in return, guns, ammunition, cloth, beads, and other trade goods.