While we were eating, they stole the pipe with which they were smoking, and the greatcoat of one of the men.

We immediately searched them all, and discovered the coat stuffed under the root of a tree near where they were sitting; but the pipe we could not recover.

Finding us determined not to suffer any imposition, and discontented with them, they showed their displeasure in the only way which they dared, by returning in an ill-humor to their village.
"We then proceeded and soon met two canoes, with twelve men of the same Skilloot nation, who were on their way from below.

The larger of the canoes was ornamented with the figure of a bear in the bow and a man in the stern, both nearly as large as life, both made of painted wood and very neatly fixed to the boat.

In the same canoe were two Indians, finely dressed and with round hats.