The journal says:-- "September 5, we assembled the chiefs and warriors, and informed them who we were, and the purpose for which we had visited their country.

All this was, however, conveyed to them through so many different languages, that it was not comprehended without difficulty.

We therefore proceeded to the more intelligible language of presents, and made four chiefs by giving a medal and a small quantity of tobacco to each.

We received in turn from the principal chief a present consisting of the skins of a blaireau (badger), an otter, and two antelopes, and were treated by the women to some dried roots and berries.

We then began to traffic for horses, and succeeded in exchanging seven and purchasing eleven, for which we gave a few articles of merchandise.
"This encampment consists of thirty-three tents, in which were about four hundred souls, among whom eighty were men.