Marias River decision camp — Joseph Whitehouse: June 11, 1805
On a clear pleasant morning, Captain Lewis set out around 8 o'clock with George Drouillard, George Gibson, Joseph Fields, and Silas Goodrich toward the South Snowy Mountain. The party stored heavy supplies in a cache, including kegs of powder, lead, flour, pork, and parched meal, plus blacksmith bellows, tools, tin cups, a Dutch oven, a hand mill, beaver packs, bear skins, horns, and buffalo robes. The blacksmiths finished repairing firearms, and the cache was completed. The men prepared to ascend the South Fork. Small fish, including an unfamiliar flat-scaled kind, were plentiful.
a Clear pleasant morning. about 8 oClock Cap‘ Lewis,
George Drewyer, G. Gibson, Jo. Fields & Silas Goodrich Set
out for the South Snowey mountain. we put in the carsh or
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1805] WHITEHOUSE’S JOURNAL
hole 1 keg of powder 1 bar led, 1 keg flour 1 keg pork 2 kegs
parched meal the bellowses & tools augur plains Saw &c. some
tin cups a dutch oven, a corn hand mill, packs of beaver, bear
Skins horns Buffalow Robes &c. &c. the Blacksmiths com-
pleated repairing the fire arms. the carsh or hole on the high
land dug deeper and compleated burrying the heavey articles
&c. we got in readiness to ascend the South fork. we have
caught more Small fish Since we lay here than we made use of,
and one kind of Small flat Scale fish that we never Saw the
kind before. ,
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A clear, pleasant morning. About 8 o'clock Capt. Lewis (Capt. Lewis), George Drewyer (Drouillard), G. Gibson, Jo. Fields, and Silas Goodrich set out for the South Snowy Mountain. We put in the cache, or hole, 1 keg of powder, 1 bar of lead, 1 keg of flour, 1 keg of pork, 2 kegs of parched meal, the bellows and tools, auger, planes, saw, etc., some tin cups, a Dutch oven, a corn hand mill, packs of beaver, bear skins, horns, buffalo robes, etc., etc. The blacksmiths completed repairing the firearms. The cache, or hole, on the highland was dug deeper and we completed burying the heavy articles, etc. We got in readiness to ascend the south fork. We have caught more small fish since we have lain here than we made use of, and one kind of small flat-scaled fish that we never saw the kind before.
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