John Ordway: November 4, 1804
Clear, pleasant weather allowed work on the winter quarters to continue. Several French hired hands were discharged, with one set to building a pirogue to descend the Missouri. Curious local natives visited the camp to watch the construction and inspect the boats. The crew completed raising one line of huts, fitting the eave beams in place. The timber was so heavy that it took every available man, working hard, to lift the sixteen-foot eave beams into position.
morning, clear and pleasant, we continued raiseing our huts.
Several more of our french hands is discharged3 and one makeing
a pearogue in order to descend the Missourie & Several of the
natives come to our camp to see us build our huts, and to See our
boats &. C. we got one line of our huts raised So that we got the
Eve Beames on & all of large Timber So that it took all the men
hard lifting to put the 16 foot eve Beames.
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Morning, clear and pleasant. We continued raising our huts. Several more of our French hands are discharged, and one is making a pirogue in order to descend the Missouri. Several of the natives came to our camp to see us build our huts, and to see our boats, etc. We got one line of our huts raised so that we got the eave beams on, and all of large timber, so that it took all the men hard lifting to put up the 16-foot eave beams.
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