Journal entry · May 12, 1806

Nez Perce camps, reuniting with horses — Patrick Gass: May 12, 1806

Patrick Gass · Nez Perce camps, reuniting with horses · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

here also to-day. The natives in the course of the day gave
us four horses, one of which we killed to eat. We also got
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bread made of roots, which the natives call Co-was, and sweet
roots which they call Com-mas. In the afternoon they brought
three more of our old stock of horses.*

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