Great Falls Portage — Patrick Gass: June 24, 1805
At camp near the Great Falls, the party struggled to find suitable materials for constructing the iron-frame boat. Two men Captain Lewis had left behind that morning rejoined camp in the afternoon without news of two other missing hunters. A heavy rain shower fell in the evening before the weather cleared, and men arrived bringing two more canoes. The two missing hunters were located: they had killed buffalo below the mouth of the Medicine River, with one staying there and the other returning to the lower camp, having found no elk.
our camp. We found it very difficult to procure stuff for the
boat. The two men which Captain Lewis had left in the
morning came to our camp in the afternoon, but had seen
nothing of the other two hunters. In the evening there was
a very heavy shower of rain; at night the weather cleared up,
and the men arrived with two more canoes. The two hunters
which Capt. Lewis could not find, had killed some buffaloe
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below the mouth of the Medicine river, where one remained,
and the other had gone across to the camp below the falls
again, but had found no elk.
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our camp. We found it very difficult to procure materials for the boat. The two men whom Captain Lewis (Capt. Lewis) had left in the morning came to our camp in the afternoon, but had seen nothing of the other two hunters. In the evening there was a very heavy shower of rain; at night the weather cleared up, and the men arrived with two more canoes. The two hunters whom Capt. Lewis could not find had killed some buffalo below the mouth of the Medicine river, where one remained, and the other had gone back across to the camp below the falls, but had found no elk.
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