Fort Mandan (winter) — Patrick Gass: January 29, 1805
The party attempted to free their boats from the ice by heating water inside them with hot stones, but the stones shattered when exposed to fire and the plan failed. On Wednesday the 30th, Gass searched upriver for a different type of stone, but those broke apart the same way. As a result, the batteaux and pirogues remained stuck fast in the ice.
water craft disengaged from the ice: which was to heat water
in the boats, with hot stones; but in this project we failed,
as the stones we found would not stand the fire, but broke to
pieces.
IF ednesday 30th. 1 went up the river and found another
kind of stones, which broke in the same manner: so our bat-
teaux and periogues remained fast in the ice.
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...water craft disengaged from the ice: which was to heat water in the boats, with hot stones; but in this project we failed, as the stones we found would not stand the fire, but broke to pieces.
Wednesday 30th. I went up the river and found another kind of stones, which broke in the same manner: so our batteaux and pirogues remained fast in the ice.
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