As they build dugout canoes at Clearwater Canoe Camp near present Orofino, Idaho, acquiring food is a problem. They eat a coyote and a horse, and Pvts. Frazer and Goodrich are sent to the Nez Perce village to trade for food.
Coyote
Canis latrans
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Small Gifts
To the Indians who visited us yesterday I gave divided my Handkerchief between 5 of them, with a Small piece of tobacco & a pece of riebin & to the principal men each a ring & brooch.
—William Clark
Buying Food
Despatched 2 men Frasure [Frazer] & S. Guterich [Goodrich] back to the village with 1 Indian & 6 horses to purchase dried fish, roots &c. we have nothing to eate but roots, which give the men violent pains in their bowels after eating much of them.
—William Clark
Hungry Canoe Builders
Some of our hunters were sent out go into the Hills a hunting. Towards evening those hunters returned & had killed nothing but a Priari wolf [coyote], which was eat by our party.
—Joseph Whitehouse
Eating a Horse
The party that were at work on the Canoes were so weak for want of meat, that our officers concluded on having a horse killed, which was done & it being in good order, the Men eat the flesh of it with as good a relish as they would have done had it been a Stalled fed beef.—
—Joseph Whitehouse
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 2d N fair Note from the 1st to 7th of October we were at the mouth of Chopunnuish river makeing Canoes to Decend the Kooskooske [Clearwater].
—William Clark[1]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
Notes
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