Journal entry · July 16, 1806
Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — Patrick Gass: July 16, 1806
Patrick Gass · Great Falls Portage · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Great Falls Portage
our horses, of which Capt. Lewis took six and left four to
haul the canoes and baggage over the portage, and then
started to go up Maria’s river with only three hunters. We
continued here to repair our waggons or truckles to tran-
sport the baggage and canoes on when the men with them
should arrive.— The musquitoes are still very troublesome.
When Capt. Lewis left us, he gave orders that we should
wait at the mouth of Maria’s river to the 1st of Sept. at which
time, should he not arrive, we were to proceed on and join
Capt. Clarke at the mouth of the Yellow-stone river, and then
to return home: but informed us, that should his life and
health be preserved he would meet us at the mouth of Maria’s
river on the 5th of August.
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