Next day they passed the mouth of another river entering the Columbia from the south and called by the Indians the Towahnahiooks, but known to modern geography as the Des Chutes, one of the largest southern tributaries of the Columbia.

Five miles below the mouth of this stream the party camped.

Near them was a party of Indians engaged in drying and packing salmon.

Their method of doing this is thus described:-- "The manner of doing this is by first opening the fish and exposing it to the sun on scaffolds.

When it is sufficiently dried it is pounded between two stones till it is pulverized, and is then placed in a basket about two feet long and one in diameter, neatly made of grass and rushes, and lined with the skin of a salmon stretched and dried for the purpose.