Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — Patrick Gass: November 27, 1805
The party paddled along the coast and rounded a sharp cape about a mile out, but the swells became so high that they were forced to stop. They unloaded the canoes and hauled them ashore for safety. The group remained on the shore through the afternoon and endured a very wet night at the makeshift camp.
coasted round, and turned a sharp cape about a mile; when
we found the swells running so high that we had to halt,
unload our canoes and haul them out on the shore. Here we
remained the afternoon and had a very wet night.
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We coasted around and turned a sharp cape for about a mile, when we found the swells running so high that we had to stop, unload our canoes, and haul them out onto the shore. Here we remained the afternoon and had a very wet night.
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