Patrick Gass: December 1, 1806
The day was cold with high winds. The party remained in camp waiting for an answer from a chief, preparing to head back up the Missouri. Hunters were sent out, and powder horns and ammunition were distributed. Later, traveling downriver in lashed-together canoes, they covered around twenty miles, killed several deer for food, and met hunters who had taken six elk and eleven deer. Captain Lewis was recovering well, and the group was in good spirits as they encamped on a sand-beach.
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ute getbeal of the men went out to hunt. e do not go
-@n so rapidly as we did higher up er river: but.
having lashed our small canoes together, we go on
– yery safe and can make: fifty or sixty miles a day .
Captain Lewis is getting much better and we are all
in, good spirits. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the
wind ceased, and. ‘we proceeded on, ard met with our
hunters on the bank, who had killed six elk and
– eleven deer. . We took the meat on board, proceeded
on, and encamped on a sand-beach. — moh
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The weather was cold for the season.
[Text continues regarding plans to return up the Missouri River.] We yet remained here, waiting for an answer from the [chief?], with powder horns and two canisters filled [with powder].
[The party divided] into pairs, with the man who had received his discharge and was to go up the river with [them], two and two, as we expect they will be ready this way and carry larger loads. At [time], we dropped down to the village of the Big-[bellies?] and [continued] down the river, having descended about twenty miles. We camped [there].
The wind was high. At 10 o'clock we killed two deer, when we halted for an hour and cooked some venison. In the evening we camped, and some of the men went out and killed five or six more deer.
Tuesday 19th. This was a cloudy, windy morning, and the water so rough that our small canoes could not safely ride the waves; so we stayed here, and several of the men went out to hunt. We do not go on as rapidly as we did higher up the river, but having lashed our small canoes together, we go on very safely and can make fifty or sixty miles a day. Captain Lewis (Capt. Lewis) is getting much better and we are all in good spirits. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the wind ceased, and we proceeded on, and met with our hunters on the bank, who had killed six elk and eleven deer. We took the meat on board, proceeded on, and camped on a sand beach.
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