. A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps of discovery under the command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke of the army of the United States [microform] : from the mouth of the river Missouri through the interior parts of North America, to the Pacific Ocean during the years 1804, 1805, & 1806 ... and an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities and vegetable and animal productions. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 297 kcre on the north side of the river. Here we re- mained all night, a«d the natives Mere good enough to supply us with some faggots of brush, they h
. A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps of discovery under the command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke of the army of the United States [microform] : from the mouth of the river Missouri through the interior parts of North America, to the Pacific Ocean during the years 1804, 1805, & 1806 ... and an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities and vegetable and animal productions. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 297 kcre on the north side of the river. Here we re- mained all night, a«d the natives Mere good enough to supply us with some faggots of brush, they had gathered in tlie plains from the sage bushes, which grow in great abundance on some part of these plains and are verv laro-e Monday —The morning was pleasant, and we spent it with the Indians, and got dogs,' fish, shap-a-leel and roots from them. At 10 o'clock we began to take our liorses over the river at this place, as we can lessen our journey considerably by crossing : we borrowed canoes from the natives,' and swam tlie horses alongside, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon had them all landed safe, after a good deal of trouble. From this place we can discover a range of mountains, covered with snow, in a south-east direction and about fifty miles distant. In the evening the weather was cloudy, and it thun- dered and threatened rain, a few drops of which fell. We remained here all night, and about dark, above a hundred of the natives came down from the forks to see us. They joined with those at this place and performed a great dance. We were a very interesting sight to the surrounding crowd, as nine-tenths of them had never before seen a white man. Tuesday 29th.—The natives remained about our camp all night; and we bought some dogs m ii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gass, Pa
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