The party tarried here long enough to secure from the Indians a tolerably correct description of the river upon which they were about to embark.

One of the chiefs drew upon the skin-side of a buffalo robe a sketch of the Columbia.

And this was transferred to paper and put into the journal.

That volume adds here:-- "Having completed the purposes of our stay, we now began to lay in our stores.

Fish being out of season, we purchased forty dogs, for which we gave small articles, such as bells, thimbles, knitting-needles, brass wire, and a few beads, an exchange with which they all seemed perfectly satisfied.