Impressed with the sincerity of this agreement, the captains of the expedition invested the principal chief with a medal and some small articles of clothing.
The two faithful chiefs who had accompanied the white men from the headwaters of the streams now bade farewell to their friends and allies, the explorers.

They bought horses of the Echeloots and returned to their distant homes by land.
Game here became more abundant, and on the twenty-sixth of October the journal records the fact that they received from the Indians a present of deer-meat, and on that day their hunters found plenty of tracks of elk and deer in the mountains, and they brought in five deer, four very large gray squirrels, and a grouse.

Besides these delicacies, one of the men killed in the river a salmon-trout which was fried in bear's oil and, according to the journal, "furnished a dish of a very delightful flavor," doubtless a pleasing change from the diet of dog's flesh with which they had so recently been regaled.
Two of the Echeloot chiefs remained with the white men to guide them on their way down the river.

These were joined by seven others of their tribe, to whom the explorers were kind and attentive.

But the visitors could not resist the temptation to pilfer from the goods exposed to dry in the sun.