Navigation of these rapids is impossible.

As the explorers had no further use for their pirogues, they broke them up for fuel.

The merchandise was laboriously carried around on the river bank.
They were able to buy four horses from the Skilloots for which they paid well in goods.

It was now nearly time for the salmon to begin to run, and under date of April 19 the journal has this entry:-- "The whole village was filled with rejoicing to-day at having caught a single salmon, which was considered as the harbinger of vast quantities in four or five days.

In order to hasten their arrival the Indians, according to custom, dressed the fish and cut it into small pieces, one of which was given to each child in the village.