Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — John Ordway: October 5, 1805

John Ordway · Canoe Camp on Clearwater River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Canoe Camp, west of Orofino, ID

we proceeded on about 10 miles and passed a verry large village,
at the foot of an Island4 on the Stard Side they have a number of
canoes Some of the Savages came out in the River in their
canoes to see us they wanted to trade with us for muskets of-
fered us dressed Elk Skins, passed Several Islands Some of the
hunters killed one Swan and Several brants, we had Several
1 “The roots are of a superior quality to any I had before seen; I hey are
called whapto; resemble a potatoe when cooked, and are about as big as a hen
egg.” Gass. “The plant. Sagiitaria variabilis, is one of the best-known mem-
bers of the monocotyledonous order Alismaceae.” Cones.
2 Not Mt. Rainier, but Ml. St. Helens, in Skamania County. Wash. Clark
mistakenly supposes that this is the peak (Ml. Adams) seen by the party on
October 1(.>.
Thej were so •Ihick” that they kepi the explorers awake nearly all night.
Cones locales the camp at Knapp’s Landing, Clarke Comity, Wash., .”>’. miles
below the mouth of Willamette River.
4 Bachelor’s Island, opposite the QlOUth of Lewis River, according to Coues.
1805] SERGEANT ORD WAY’S JOURNAL 309
Small Showers of rain we Came 31 miles to day and Camped on
the Lard Shore.1 the pine hills make close to River.