Mr.McCoy set out to trap down the stream, about one hundred and fifty miles, to Fort Walla Walla, which was near the junction of this river with the Columbia.
Kit Carson and his band followed up the stream about the same distance, trapping most of the way.

They, however, encountered continued disappointments.

The region they traversed was dreary and barren in the extreme.

Often there was no game to be found.

They were brought to the very verge of starvation.