April 10, 1806
Meriwether Lewis
the small canoe got loose from the hunters ... the canoe overset and lost the articles
which were in her.
April 10, 1806
William Clark
the small canoe got loose from the hunters and went adrift with a tin cup & a
tomahawk in her;
April 10, 1806
Patrick Gass
A party of men went out to collect pitch to repair one of our canoes, which was split;
and the rest went round the point of the island, and took the canoes over the rapid, one
at a time, with the assistance of a line. When we got over the rapids we crossed to
another village of the natives on the north side, where I saw the skin of a wild sheep [mountain
goat], which had fine beautiful wool on it. Here we took breakfast and waited the
arrival of the other canoe, which in about an hour came up; and the men when out for pitch
killed 3 deer. We proceeded on, and the water was so rapid, that we had to tow the canoes
up by the line almost all the way to the landing at the lower end of the portage, a
distance of about six miles. In passing a bad place the tow-line of the small canoe, which
the hunters had on ahead, broke; but fortunately there was nothing in her, as the three
hunters were on shore dragging her up, and had taken out all the loading. As she passed by
us Capt. Lewis got some of the natives to bring her to shore [the Clah-lah-lar
indians from the last village]. In the evening we got to the end of the portage,
which is about two miles. We took our baggage to the top of the hill and remained with it
all night; during which some showers of rain fell.
April 10, 1806
John Ordway
rained hard the grater part of last night. a cloudy & Showery morning. 2 men [Collins
& Gibson] Sent out to hunt pitch who belonged to a Small canoe. we took
up the large canoes one at a time up the rapids with the towing line. the Small one
also who was left to help up with the other small one. we then crossed over the
River to the N. Side and halted at a village where we took breakfast. the men who
were hunting pitch cam up with their canoe. one of them by the name of Collins had
killed three Deer and brought them to us. Capt. Lewis purchased a white mountain Sheep
Skin [mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus] for which he gave 2
Elk hides we bought a fiew Salmon trout [steelhead trout] then we
proceed. on Soon came to bad rapids where we had to tow one canoe up at a time.
Drewyer & the 2 Fields went on a head with their Smal canoe. their chord broke
& their canoe went back down the rapids and taken up by the Indians below, who
returnd. it to us. our officers gave them two knives for the kindness. one of
the men lamed one of his feet towing over the Stons with Some fatigue we got all the
canoes to the lower end of the portage of the big Shoote and unloaded in the large eddy
below on N. Side and carried all the baggage on the top of the hill, and Camped a
number of the natives visited us Some distance below this place I Saw a large grave
yard little below an ancient village. this is a different manner from any I have
Seen of burring the dead in tombs about 8 feet Square made of wood plank and tite flowers
[floors] made of plank layn in them and the corps are layn out on the flower
Roped up in Some kind of a Robe, and all thier property is deposited with them Such as
copper tea kittles baskets cockle Shells canoes are layn by the Side of Sd. tombs
also. Several Images cut in wood one put up at the ends of Said tombs &C
one of the Indians Stole an axe from us another told one of our men and he followed
him and took it from him and told him that he was bad and he replied the he was &C--
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