Cascades of the Columbia, portage — John Ordway: October 29, 1805

and proceeded on about 6 miles and halted at Some Indian lodges
where we bought a number more dogs and proceeded on the current
gentle passed a great number of Indian villages on the Stard Side
and one on the Lard Side. Saw 2 or 3 cabbens on the Lard side
which is the first we Seen on that Side on this River. Saw a
beautiful Spring on the Lard Side, which run off a high clift of
rocks, and fell of[f] the clift upwards of a hundred feet perpinticu-
lar. the country Mountaineous. high clifts on the River, mostly
covred with pine timber. Some cotten wood on the narrow bot-
toms. Some willow also we bought several more dogs at one of
the villages, we Came 26 miles this day and Camped at a village
on the Stard Side Saw Snow on a mountain on the Lard Side.2