Canoe Camp on Clearwater River — Patrick Gass: September 27, 1805
The party set out toward the river, leaving behind one man searching for the horses and another at the first village. Many were ill from the change in diet. They traveled through a level valley lightly timbered with pine and spruce, passing thin soils, small fertile plains, and abundant serviceberry bushes. By evening they reached their hunters' camp on a 100-yard-wide branch of the Columbia, where five deer had been killed—welcome relief from Indian provisions. Captain Clark dosed the sick with Rush's Pills. Natives reported two days' march to the great river, and some were found fishing nearby.
o’clock we set forward on our march towards the river, all
but one man who had gone back to look for the horses and
another that had remained at the first village. The men are
generally unwell, owing to the change of diet. The valley is
level and lightly timbered with pine and spruce trees. The
soil is thin except in some small plains, where it is of the first
quality. The adjacent country appears much the same; ex-
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cept that on the river it is broken with hills and some rocks.
In the valley there are great quantities of service-berry bushes.
In the evening we arrived at the camp of our hunters on a
river about 100 yards broad, a branch of the Columbia. The
natives say it is two days march to the great river. We en-
camped on a small island with our hunters who had killed 5
deer, which was a very pleasing circumstance to us; as the
Indian provisions did not agree with us. Captain Clarke gave
all the sick a dose of Rush’s Pills, to see what effect that
would have. We found some of the natives here upon the
river fishing.
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At [blank] o'clock we set forward on our march towards the river, all but one man who had gone back to look for the horses and another that had remained at the first village. The men are generally unwell, owing to the change of diet. The valley is level and lightly timbered with pine and spruce trees. The soil is thin except in some small plains, where it is of the first quality. The adjacent country appears much the same; except that on the river it is broken with hills and some rocks. In the valley there are great quantities of serviceberry bushes.
In the evening we arrived at the camp of our hunters on a river about 100 yards broad, a branch of the Columbia. The natives say it is two days' march to the great river. We camped on a small island with our hunters, who had killed 5 deer, which was a very pleasing circumstance to us, as the Indian provisions did not agree with us. Captain Clarke (Captain Clark) gave all the sick a dose of Rush's Pills, to see what effect that would have. We found some of the natives here upon the river fishing.
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