Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit — Patrick Gass: April 28, 1806
The party traded with local Indians for dogs, fish, shap-a-leel, and roots. Starting at 10 a.m., they borrowed canoes from the natives to ferry their horses across the river, a shortcut that saved travel time; the horses swam alongside and all were safely landed by 2 p.m. A snow-covered mountain range was visible about fifty miles to the southeast. Cloudy evening weather brought thunder and a few raindrops. After dark, over a hundred natives arrived from the forks, joining locals in a large dance, with most having never seen a white man before.
with the Indians, and got dogs, fish, shap-a-leel and roots
from them. At 10 o’clock we began to take our horses over
the river at this place, as we can lessen our journey consider-
ably by crossing: We borrowed canoes from the natives, and
swam the horses along side, and at two o’clock in the after-
noon had them all landed safe, after a good deal of trouble.
From this place we can discover a range of mountains covered
with snow, in a south east direction and about fifty miles dis-
tant. In the evening the weather was cloudy, and it thundered
and threatened rain, a few drops of which fell. We remained
here all night, and about dark above an hundred of the
natives came down from the forks to see us. They joined
with those at this place and performed a great dance. We
were a very interesting sight to the surrounding crowd, as
nine-tenths of them had never before seen a white man.
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We traded with the Indians and got dogs, fish, shap-a-leel, and roots from them. At 10 o'clock we began to take our horses across the river at this place, since we can shorten our journey considerably by crossing. We borrowed canoes from the natives and swam the horses alongside them, and by two o'clock in the afternoon we had them all landed safely, after a good deal of trouble.
From this place we can see a range of mountains covered with snow, in a southeast direction and about fifty miles distant. In the evening the weather was cloudy, and it thundered and threatened rain, a few drops of which fell. We stayed here all night, and around dark more than a hundred of the natives came down from the forks to see us. They joined with those at this place and performed a great dance. We were a very interesting sight to the surrounding crowd, since nine-tenths of them had never before seen a white man.
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