We were visited this morning by several canoes of Indians who joined those already with us and soon opened a numerous council. We informed them of our friendship as we had done to all the other Indian nations and of our desire to promote peace among all the Indians in this country. This was conveyed by signs through the means of our two chiefs and seemed to be perfectly understood. We then met a second chief and gave to all the leaders a string of wampum in remembrance of what we had said. During the conference four men came in a canoe from a large camp on an island about eight miles below, but after staying a few minutes, returned without saying a word to us. We now procured from the principal chief and one of the Chimnapum nation a sketch of the Columbia and the tribes of his nation living along its banks and those of the Tapteel River. They drew it with a piece of coal on a robe. Afterward, transferred to paper, it exhibited a valuable specimen of Indian cartography.

The great chief with two of the lesser leaders and a third belonging to a band on the river below visited us 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 only a string of wampum to the inferior chiefs.