Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — Patrick Gass: April 1, 1806
The party decided to remain in camp for a day of hunting. Nine hunters set out early in the morning, with three heading up the Quicksand River, where they killed a deer. The other six hunters brought down four elk and another deer. In the evening, a group of nine men went out to retrieve the elk meat, but darkness fell before they could return, forcing them to camp out overnight away from the main party.
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.
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We agreed to stay here all day for the purpose of hunting. So nine hunters set out early; three of them went up Quicksand River and killed a deer; the other six killed four 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 camp out all night.
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