Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream — John Ordway: April 8, 1806

so high a head that in Stead of our Setting out as we intended [we]
had to unload our canoes, the waves ran high and filled them
with water &C. Several men sent out a hunting put our dry
meat on a scaffel & dry it a little more &C. the wind still raise-
ing. the River rises a little the wind continued high all day &C.