The explorers traded horses with their visitors, and, with what they already had, they now found their band to number sixty-five, all told.

Having finished their trading, they invited the Indians to take part in the games of prisoners' base and foot-racing; in the latter game the Indians were very expert, being able to distance the fleetest runner of the white men's party.

At night, the games were concluded by a dance.

The account of the expedition says that the captains were desirous of encouraging these exercises before they should begin the passage over the mountains, "as several of the men are becoming lazy from inaction." On the tenth of June the party set out for Quamash flats, each man well mounted and leading a spare horse which carried a small load.

To their dismay, they found that their good friends, the Chopunnish, unwilling to part with them, were bound to accompany them to the hunting-grounds.