Marias River decision camp — Joseph Whitehouse: June 5, 1805
A cold, cloudy, and windy day with strong northeast winds continuing from the previous night. The party trapped one beaver overnight. Whitehouse remained in camp, working on dressing skins to make himself moccasins and other items. Fellow expedition member Goodrich had success fishing, catching a considerable number of small fish, including some scale fish but mostly smallish catfish. Whitehouse notes that unlike the previous season, they have not yet caught any large fish during this part of the journey.
the wind blew high from the N.E. all last night. a cloudy
cold windy morning. one beaver caught in a trap last night.
I Stayed in Camp dressing Skins for to make myself moccasons
&c. one of the men by the name of goodrich has caught a
considerable quantity of Small fish. Some of them Skale fish
the most part are a sort of Smallish sized cat fish. we have
caught no large ones this Season as we did last as yet &c.
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The wind blew high from the northeast all last night. It was a cloudy, cold, windy morning. One beaver was caught in a trap last night. I stayed in camp dressing skins to make myself moccasins, etc. One of the men, by the name of Goodrich, has caught a considerable quantity of small fish. Some of them are scale fish, but most of them are a sort of smallish-sized catfish. We have not caught any large ones this season yet, as we did last year, etc.
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