In the middle of September he reached the country of the Newatamipoets, and presented to their chief, on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company, a present of clothes, knives, awls, tobacco, and a gun, gunpowder, and shot.

On this journey Kellsey encountered the grizzly bear, a more common denizen of the western regions of North America.

According to his own account, he and one of the Indians with him were attacked by two grizzly bears and obliged to climb into the branches of trees.

The bears followed them; but Kellsey fired and killed one, and later on the other also.

For this feat he was greatly reverenced by the Indians, and received the name of Mistopashish, or "little giant".
Kellsey afterwards rose to be governor of York Fort, on the west coast of Hudson Bay.
The next great explorer ranging westward from Hudson Bay was Anthony Hendry.[2] Anthony Hendry left York factory in 1754, with a company of Kri Indians, to make a great journey of exploration to the west, and with the deliberate intention of wintering with the natives and not returning for that purpose to Hudson Bay.