Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — John Ordway: October 2, 1805

our baggage past the last rapid about one mile further and took
one canoe down at a time partly loaded, about 10 oClock A.M.
we got all Safe below the last bad rapid we can git any account of
from the natives, then loaded up the canoes. 2 Indians came to
us from a village below who had red and blue cloath blankets
which appeared new one had a brass musket and powder flask
a little powder &C. about 12 we set out passed a large Island
mostly prarie which our officers name Strabery Island, we halted
a fiew minutes and killed Several geese. passd Several old villages
about or a little below the big Shoote on the Stard Side, at the foot
of said Island we passd over a rapid which [has] high waves in it
the hills high on each Side but mostly covred with pine timber.
1 Wind River, in Skamania County, Wash. Coues.
– “mi an island righl at the head of the rapids.” Wheeler. The party
had reached the Cascades of the Columbia; the “big Shoote” was the Upper
Cascades.
5 “at the head of Strawberry Island.” Wheeler.
1805] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 307
proceeded on about 4 miles further, the River got more Smooth the
current gentle wide and Strait.1 passed the m° of a creek on the
Lard side Saw a number of Spring runs flowing from the high
clifts and Mountains. Some of which falls off about 100 feet per-
pinticular we came 21 miles this day & Camped under a verry
Shelving clift on the Lard Side.