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 Pierced Nose who, with his family, was returning home from a visit below, volunteered to help also; Chief Yellept lent the captains two canoes, for crossing the Columbia to the south side at the mouth of the Walla Walla, where the new trail began.

"The most hospitable, honest and sincere Indians we have met since leaving the United States, Merne," asserted Captain Clark, when they had been overtaken, a day's journey out, by three Walla Walla young men who had hastened after to restore to them a beaver-trap that had been forgotten.