The party made great use of the wappatoo after they had learned how well it served in place of bread.

They bought here all that the Indians could spare and then made their way down the river to an open prairie where they camped for dinner and found many signs of elk and deer.

The journal says:-- "When we landed for dinner, a number of Indians from the last village came down for the purpose, as we supposed, of paying us a friendly visit, as they had put on their favorite dresses.

In addition to their usual covering they had scarlet and blue blankets, sailors' jackets and trousers, shirts and hats.

They had all of them either war-axes, spears, and bows and arrows, or muskets and pistols, with tin powder-flasks.
We smoked with them and endeavored to show them every attention, but we soon found them very assuming and disagreeable companions.