This man had been very serviceable to us, and his wife was particularly useful among the Shoshonees: indeed, she had borne with a patience truly admirable the fatigues of so long a route, encumbered with the charge of an infant, who was then only nineteen months old.

We therefore paid him his wages, amounting to five hundred dollars and thirty-three cents, including the price of a horse and a lodge purchased of him, and soon afterward dropped down to the village of Big White, attended on shore by all the Indian chiefs, who had come to take leave of him.
"We found him surrounded by his friends, who sat in a circle smoking, while the women were crying.

He immediately sent his wife and son, with their baggage, on board, accompanied by the interpreter and his wife, and two children; and then, after distributing among his friends some powder and ball which we had given him, and smoking a pipe, he went with us to the river side.

The whole village crowded about us, and many of the people wept aloud at the departure of their chief." Once more embarked, the party soon reached Fort Mandan, where they had wintered in 1804.

They found very little of their old stronghold left except a few pickets and one of the houses.