Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — Patrick Gass: April 1, 1806

we agreed to stay here all day, for the purpose of hunting.
So 9 hunters set out early; 3 of whom went up Quicksand
*«T had imagined that the Canadians, who accompanied me were the most
expert canoe-men in the world, but they are very inferior to these people [the natives
near the coast] as they themselves acknowledged, in conducting those vessels.’’
MP Kenzie.
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river, and killed a deer; the other stx killed 4 elk and a deer.
In the evening nine of us went to bring in the meat of the elk;
but it being late we were obliged to encamp out all night.