Lewis: Great Falls / Clark: crossing to Yellowstone — Patrick Gass: July 13, 1806
The party moved about a mile up to their old encampment and opened a cache they had previously deposited there, finding some items had spoiled. With one man still out searching for the horses and not yet returned, they spent the entire day at the site airing and sunning their baggage and supplies. Mosquitoes were a severe nuisance, and wolves howled around the camp continuously, both day and night.
about a mile up to our old encampment; opened a deposit
we had made here and found some things spoiled; and the
other man that went to look for the horses not being returned
we remained here all day airing and sunning the baggage and
stores. The musquitoes torment us very much, and the wolves
continually howl night and day round our camp.
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We went about a mile up to our old campsite and opened a cache we had made here, finding that some things had spoiled. Since the other man who went to look for the horses had not yet returned, we stayed here all day airing and sunning the baggage and supplies.
The mosquitoes torment us very much, and the wolves continually howl night and day around our camp.
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