Journal entry · July 20, 1806
Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 20, 1806
John Ordway · Great Falls Portage · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Great Falls Portage
lay here to day as the truck waggons are not fixed. Serg* Gass
went at putting in the tongues to the waggons. Some of the men
are engaged dressing Skins, but we are tormented by the Musque-
toes and Small flys. the men engaged dressing deer Skins &C.
towards evening we got up our our 4 horses [and] tackled them
in the truck waggons found they would draw but were covred
thick with Musquetoes and Small flys &C.
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