Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 23, 1805

hunters out a hunting, the natives do not incline to part with
any more of their horses untill they cross the mountains, but will
carry our baggage over for us. Several of the natives went out
with their horses a hunting we took all the canoes in to a pond
on the North Side of the River and sank them in the water so as
they may be safe at our return, the natives who went a hunting
1 Lewis also gave Cameahwait some dried squashes, brought from Fori
Mandan. He had them boiled, and declared them “the best thing he had ever
tasted excepl sugar,” a small lump of which his sister, Sacajawea, had given
him.
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returned, drove a deer with them near the Camp and rode it
down so that they killed it with their bow and arrows, in that
way they caught & killd 5 or 6 this day one of them a verry large
black taild Deer, they have no other way to kill their game but
to run them down with their horses and tire them so that they
can kill them, about 3 oClock P. M. another party of the Snake
nation arived here about 40 of them on horse back, we expect to
set out to cross the mountain tomorrow, so we sent 2 men on a head
to kill Some meat if possable. towards evening our hunter re-
turned, had killed 2 large deer and three Small ones and brought
them all to Camp on the horse.