Journal entry · April 7, 1806
Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream — Patrick Gass: April 7, 1806
Patrick Gass · Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
hunters went on ahead again and the rest of the party re-
mained drying meat to subsist on while we passed the Co-
lumbia plains, as there is no game in that part of the country,
according to the accounts given by the natives, who are daily
coming down; and say that those remaining in the plains are
in a starving condition, and will continue so until the salmon
begin to run, which is very soon expected. We continued
here all day; and one of our hunters killed a beautiful small
bird of the quail kind.
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