Snake River Research Paper

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Today is October 10, 1805, we have reached the Snake river. We decided to to rest and meet up with the Indians by the Columbia river. Along with our meeting with the Indians we found a new food source, dried salmon. On October 20, 1805 we were around the Columbia river where we we saw these black birds that had a long neck and a orange beak they were near the mouth of the Umatilla river.
Also, two days after we had encountered the bird we discovered this tree that grew hazelnuts, it was near the Deschutes river. Going west we traveled through the last mountain range, The Cascades. On November 7, I said, "Ocian! in view O! the joy", because we were finally near ocean, but I was wrong we were still twenty miles from the coast. By the middle

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