Clearwater Canoe Camp, ID Those who are not too sick to work are busy carving canoes and paddles. The men complain about their diet of dried salmon and Native roots.
Dried Salmon
From a display at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, Illwaco, Washington. Photo 2015 by Kristopher K. Townsend.
Ten Days Left[1]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading
Carving Canoes and Paddles
2 of our party set out to hunt, & the remainder that were well, were employed in making the Canoes & Oars. The Natives visited us, & brought some Salmon with them, which we purchased.—
—Joseph Whitehouse
Dietary Complaints
Game is very scarce, and our hunters unable to kill any meat. We are therefore obliged to live on fish and roots, that we procure from the natives; and which do not appear a suitable diet for us. Salt also is scarce without which fish is but poor and insipid
—Patrick Gass
Sick Men
Our men nearly all Complaining of ther bowels, a heaviness at the Stomach & Lax, Some of those taken first getting better
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 P.M. Wind at 4 P.M. fair E fair S W. —Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column and spelled out some abbreviations.
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the date column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
