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Documenting Lewis and Clark – 1806, The Return Home
 August
4: Ordway And Willard's Canoe Adventure
John Ordway: I and willard went on eairly with a Small caone to hunt . . . towards evening we killed a large white or grizzly bear nearly of a Silver Grey. we then procd. On in the evening by moon light as the party was a head about 11 oClock at night we found ourselves in a thick place of Sawyers . . . we had no chance to git out of them . . . and the Stern run under a limb of a tree and caught willard who was in the Stern and drew him out as the current was verry rapid. he held by the limb . . .. he told me he had made a little raft of 2 Small Sticks he caught floating and tyed them together, and tyed his cloathes on them and would Swim down through this difficult place and I run down and took out the canoe and took him in as he Swam through Safe we procd. on a Short distance farther and came to the Camp of the party.(Moulton, Vol. 9, p. 345)
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