Journal entry · October 26, 1805

Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage — John Ordway: October 26, 1805

John Ordway · Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

The place today: Celilo Falls and The Dalles portage

delay here for observations &C. and to repair the canoes also.
Several men went out in the timbred land to hunt, we unloaded
the canoes and hailed them out of the water to Smooth their bot-
toms and repair them, one of the men giged a Sammon Trout in
the River, towards evening the hunters returned to Camp had
killed 5 Deer a goose and a gray Squerrell. a number of Savages
came in canoes made in form of ScifTs to our Camp, our officers
took down some of the language from these Savages and compared
with all other we have passd and find them to be all of the flat head
nation nation but different tribes, we think the flat head nation
to be more than ten thousand Strong, the River raised con-
siderable this afternoon.
1 Mill Creek, in Wasco County. Ore. The site (if the camp is just below
the steamboat landing at The Dalles. Wheeler.
1805] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 305

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