Columbia estuary, storm-bound, vote on winter camp — Patrick Gass: November 13, 1805
The party remained pinned at camp by rough conditions and could not move on. Around 9 a.m. the weather calmed somewhat, and three men set out in a canoe—obtained from local Indians and well-suited to handling ocean swells—heading toward the point on the sea shore. Their goal was to determine whether any white traders were currently there or had already departed.
and we remained at camp being unable to get away. At 9
o’clock in the forenoon it became a little more calm than
usual ; and 3 men took a canoe, which we got from the Indians
of a kind excellent for riding swells, and set out to go to the
point on the sea shore, to ascertain whether there were any
white people there or if they were gone.
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We remained at camp, unable to get away. At 9 o'clock in the forenoon it became a little more calm than usual, and 3 men took a canoe—which we had gotten from the Indians, of a kind excellent for riding swells—and set out to go to the point on the sea shore to find out whether there were any white people there, or if they were gone.
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