During the summer of 1806, the brig "Lydia," Captain Hill, entered the Columbia for the purpose of trading with the natives.

From one of these Captain Hill secured the paper, which he took to Canton, China, in January, 1807.

Thence it was sent to a gentleman in Philadelphia, having travelled nearly all the way round the world.
Fort Clatsop, as they called the rude collection of huts in which they had burrowed all winter, with its rude furniture and shelters, was formally given to Comowool, the Clatsop chief who had been so kind to the party.

Doubtless the crafty savage had had his eye on this establishment, knowing that it was to be abandoned in the spring.
The voyagers left Fort Clatsop about one o'clock in the day, and, after making sixteen miles up the river, camped for the night.

Next day, they reached an Indian village where they purchased "some wappatoo and a dog for the invalids." They still had several men on the sick list in consequence of the hard fare of the winter.