The evening was expended in ineffectual trials.

He offered a gun, a buffalo robe, and various other articles.

The poor fellows had, probably, like himself, the fear of starvation before their eyes.

At length the women, learning the object of his pressing solicitations and tempting offers, set up such a terrible hue and cry that he was fairly howled and scolded from the ground.
The next morning early, the Indians seemed very desirous to get rid of their visitors, fearing, probably, for the safety of their horses.

In reply to Mr.Hunt's inquiries about the mountains, they told him that he would have to sleep but three nights more among them; and that six days' travelling would take him to the falls of the Columbia; information in which he put no faith, believing it was only given to induce him to set forward.