They pulled to shore; the men came up and made themselves known.

They proved to be Mr.Crooks and his faithful follower, John Day.
The reader will recollect that Mr.Crooks, with Day and four Canadians, had been so reduced by famine and fatigue, that Mr.Hunt was obliged to leave them, in the month of December, on the banks of the Snake River.
Their situation was the more critical, as they were in the neighborhood of a band of Shoshonies, whose horses had been forcibly seized by Mr.
Hunt's party for provisions.

Mr.Crooks remained here twenty days, detained by the extremely reduced state of John Day, who was utterly unable to travel, and whom he would not abandon, as Day had been in his employ on the Missouri, and had always proved himself most faithful.
Fortunately the Shoshonies did not offer to molest them.

They had never before seen white men, and seemed to entertain some superstitions with regard to them, for though they would encamp near them in the daytime, they would move off with their tents in the night; and finally disappeared, without taking leave.
When Day was sufficiently recovered to travel, they kept feebly on, sustaining themselves as well as they could, until in the month of February, when three of the Canadians, fearful of perishing with want, left Mr.Crooks on a small river, on the road by which Mr Hunt had passed in quest of Indians.

Mr.Crooks followed Mr.Hunt's track in the snow for several days, sleeping as usual in the open air, and suffering all kinds of hardships.