 The group was greeted at Fort Umpqua by Jean Baptiste Gagnier and his wife Angelique, a daughter of an Umpqua chief, acted as an interpreter for them.While meeting with the Umpquas, one chief stressed that their reputation of being "a bad people" was undeserved and they desired for a priest.The negative impression of the Umpquas was gained after the murder of the majority of a fur trapping party under Jedediah Smith in 1828.