The Tapteal, as the journal calls it, is now known as the Yakima, a stream which has its source in the Cascade range of mountains, Washington.  The party tarried here long enough to secure from the Indians a tolerably correct description of the river upon which they were about to embark.  One of the chiefs drew upon the skin-side of a buffalo robe a sketch of the Columbia.  And this was transferred to paper and put into the journal.  That volume adds here:—­

“Having completed the purposes of our stay, we now began to lay in our stores.  Fish being out of season, we purchased forty dogs, for which we gave small articles, such as bells, thimbles, knitting-needles, brass wire, and a few beads, an exchange with which they all seemed perfectly satisfied.  These dogs, with six prairie-cocks killed this morning, formed a plentiful supply for the present.  We here left our guide and the two young men who had accompanied him, two of the three being unwilling to go any further, and the third being of no use, as he was not acquainted with the river below.  We therefore took no Indians but our two chiefs, and resumed our journey in the presence of many of the Sokulks, who came to witness our departure.  The morning was cool and fair, and the wind from the southeast.”

They now began again to meet Indians who had never before seen white men.  On the nineteenth, says the journal:—­

“The great chief, with two of his inferior chiefs and a third belonging to a band on the river below, made us a visit at a very early hour.  The first of these was called Yelleppit,—­a handsome, well-proportioned man, about five feet eight inches high, and thirty-five years of age, with a bold and dignified countenance; the rest were not distinguished in their appearance.  We smoked with them, and after making a speech, gave a medal, a handkerchief, and a string of wampum to Yelleppit, but a string of wampum only to the inferior chiefs.  He requested us to remain till the middle of the day, in order that all his nation might come and see us; but we excused ourselves by telling him that on our return we would spend two or three days with him.  This conference detained us till nine o’clock, by which time great numbers of the Indians had come down to visit us.  On leaving them we went on for eight miles, when we came to an island near the left shore, which continued six miles in length.  At its lower extremity is a small island on which are five houses, at present vacant, though the scaffolds of fish are as usual abundant.  A short distance below are two more islands, one of them near the middle of the river.  On this there were seven houses, but as soon as the Indians, who were drying fish, saw us, they fled to their houses, and not one of them appeared till we had passed; when they came out in greater numbers than is usual for houses of that size, which induced us to think that the inhabitants of the five lodges had been alarmed at our approach and taken refuge with them.  We were very desirous of landing in order to relieve their apprehensions, but as there was a bad rapid along the island all our care was necessary to prevent injury to the canoes.  At the foot of this rapid is a rock on the left shore, which is fourteen miles from our camp of last night and resembles a hat in shape.”