Journal entry · October 1, 1805
Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — Patrick Gass: October 1, 1805
Patrick Gass · Canoe Camp on Clearwater River · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Canoe Camp on Clearwater River
152 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE
All the men are now able to work; but the greater number
are very weak. To save them from hard labour, we have
adopted the Indian method of burning out the canoes.
IW ednesday 2nd. Two men were sent to the Indian village
to purchase some provisions, as our hunters do not kill
enough for us to subsist on. And least the Indian provisions
should not agree with us, we killed one of our horses.
On the third, the men were employed as usual; on the
morning of the fourth there was a white frost, after it a fine
day. In the evening our two men returned, with a good sup-
ply of such provisions as the natives have.
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Canoe Camp, west of Orofino, ID
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