Patrick Gass: November 19, 1806
Most of the men spent the day dressing skins, with preparations complete for portaging once the canoes arrived. Mosquitoes were especially bothersome. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a sergeant and nine men reached camp with the canoes and some baggage, reporting a good passage over the mountains to the Missouri and noting that beavers near the headwaters of Wisdom River could be cooked tender in about twenty-five minutes. Because the arriving men were fatigued, the group decided to remain in camp the rest of the day.
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Most of the men are employed in dressing skins, as we have got all ready for crossing the portage as soon as the canoes arrive. The mosquitoes were very troublesome today. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon a sergeant and nine men arrived at our camp with the canoes and some baggage. They informed me that they had a good passage over the mountains to the Missouri; and on their way [text unclear] the baggage and canoes [text unclear].
[Text unclear] in twenty-five minutes would be cooked well and fit for eating. [Text unclear] the head waters of Wisdom river [text unclear] safe [text unclear] the whole party that we [text unclear] at [text unclear]. We were [text unclear]. We concluded [to remain] all day, as the men who had come were fatigued; and in the [text unclear].
Monday 21st. [Some] men [went] out for [meat] [text unclear], and at noon came back without finding any. In the afternoon some more men went out to look for them [or: for meat], who [text unclear] were out all night.
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