Columbia near The Dalles, trading for horses — Patrick Gass: April 10, 1806

to repair one of our canoes, which was split ; and the rest went
round the point of the island, and took the canoe over the
rapid, one at a time, with the assistance of a line. When we
got over the rapids we crossed to another village of the na-
tives on the north side, where I saw the skin of a wild sheep,
which had fine beautiful wool on it. Here we took breakfast
and waited the arrival of the other canoe, which in about an
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hour came up; and the men when out for pitch killed 3 deer.
We proceeded on, and the water was so rapid, that we had to
tow the canoes up by the line almost all the way to the land-
ing at the lower end of the portage, a distance of about six
miles. In passing a bad place the tow-line of the small canoe,
which the hunters had on ahead, broke; but fortunately there
was nothing in her, as the three hunters were on shore drag-
ging her up, and had taken out all the loading. As she passed
by us Capt. Lewis got some of the natives to bring her to
shore. In the evening we got to the end of the portage,
which is about two miles. We took our baggage to the top
of the hill and remained with it all night; during which some
showers of rain fell.