Journal entry · July 25, 1806
John Ordway: July 25, 1806
John Ordway · Great Falls Portage · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Great Falls Portage
other men returning, we formed a Camp at portage Creek left
2 men one to Cook & one to hunt and returnd to willow Creek hard
rain comd about noon and continued the remainder part of the
day, but did not Stop us from our urgent labours, halted as
much as we were able to help the horses as the place [is] so amaze-
ing muddy & bad. in the evening we got to portage Creek and
Camped, rained verry hard and we having no Shelter Some of
the men and myself turned over a canoe & lay under it others
Set up by the fires, the water run under us and the ground was
covred with water, the portage River raises fast Collins killed
a buffaloe and a brarow [badger].
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