The site of their new camp was at the southeast end of Baker's Bay, sometimes called Haley's Bay, a mile above a very high point of rocks.

On arriving at this place, the voyagers met with an unpleasant experience of which the journal gives this account:-- "Here we met Shannon, who had been sent back to meet us by Captain Lewis.

The day Shannon left us in the canoe, he and Willard proceeded till they met a party of twenty Indians, who, having never heard of us, did not know where they (our men) came from; they, however, behaved with so much civility, and seemed so anxious that the men should go with them toward the sea, that their suspicions were excited, and they declined going on.

The Indians, however, would not leave them; the men being confirmed in their suspicions, and fearful that if they went into the woods to sleep they would be cut to pieces in the night, thought it best to pass the night in the midst of the Indians.

They therefore made a fire, and after talking with them to a late hour, laid down with their rifles under their heads.