The weather was cold and wet, and wood for fuel was difficult to obtain.

In a few days they found themselves among their old friends, the Skilloots, who had lately been at war with the Chinooks.

There was no direct intercourse between the two nations as yet, but the Chinooks traded with the Clatsops and Wahkiacums, and these in turn traded with the Skilloots, and in this way the two hostile tribes exchanged the articles which they had for those which they desired.

The journal has this to say about the game of an island on which the explorers tarried for a day or two, in order to dry their goods and mend their canoes:-- "This island, which has received from the Indians the appropriate name of Elalah (Elallah), or Deer Island, is surrounded on the water-side by an abundant growth of cottonwood, ash, and willow, while the interior consists chiefly of prairies interspersed with ponds.

These afford refuge to great numbers of geese, ducks, large swan, sandhill cranes, a few canvas-backed ducks, and particularly the duckinmallard, the most abundant of all.