Here Fontenelle allowed his party to rest for several days.

The dead were to be buried, the wounded to be nursed, damages to be repaired, and a new supply of provisions to be obtained.

Free from all fear of molestation, the trappers explored the region for miles around, and were very successful in taking beavers.
It is estimated that the various parties of trappers, then wandering among the mountains, numbered at least six hundred men.

While our trappers were thus encamped, elated with their victory over the Indians, and still more exultant over their daily success in trapping and hunting, one day an express rode into the camp, and informed them that the rendezvous was to be held, that year, upon the Mud river, a small stream flowing circuitously from the south into Green river.

The party, having a large stock of beaver on hand, set out to cross the main ridge of the Rocky mountains, to dispose of their furs at the rendezvous.