When the two parties came within a hundred yards of each other, all the Indians, except one, halted.

Captain Lewis therefore ordered his two men to halt while he advanced, and after shaking hands with the Indian, went on and did the same with the others in the rear, while the Indian himself shook hands with the two men.

They all now came up; and after alighting, the Indians asked to smoke with us.

Captain Lewis, who was very anxious for Drewyer's safety, told them that the man who had gone down the river had the pipe, and requested that as they had seen him, one of them would accompany R.Fields, to bring him back.

To this they assented, and Fields went with a young man in search of Drewyer." Captain Lewis now asked them by signs if they were Minnetarees of the north, and he was sorry to be told in reply that they were; he knew them to be a bad lot.