In a general way his steps must have taken him in the direction of Lake Athapaska.
[Footnote 1: Spelt in the documents of the Hudson's Bay Company, Naywatame-poet.] On the way he had much trouble with the Assiniboin Indians and Kris, with whom he had caught up, and with whom he was to travel in the direction of these mysterious Newatamipoets.

The last-named tribe, who were probably of the Athapaskan group, had killed, a few months previously, three of the Kri women, and the Kri Indians who belonged to Kellsey's party were bent, above all things, on attacking the Newatamipoets and punishing them for this outrage.

Kellsey only wished to open up peaceful relations with them and create a great trade in furs with the Hudson's Bay Company, so he kept pleading with the Indians not to go to war with the Newatamipoets.

On this journey, however, one of the Kri Indians fell ill and died.

The next day the body was burnt with much ceremony--first the flesh, and then the bones--and after this funeral the companions of the dead man began to reason as to the cause of his death, and suddenly blamed Kellsey.
Kellsey had obstructed them from their purpose of avenging their slain women, therefore the gods of the tribe were angry and claimed this victim in the man who had died.