More about the food October 10, 1805. Clark: Our diet extremely bad having nothing but roots and dried fish to eate,     all the Party have greatly the advantage of me, in as much as they all relish the flesh of the dogs, Several of which we purchased of the nativs for to add to our store of fish and roots &c. &c. October 17, 1805. Clark: Several men and woman offered Dogs and fish to Sell, we purchased all the dogs we could, the fish being out of season and dieing in great numbers in the river, we did not think proper to use them,     sent out Hunters to shute the Prairie Cock a large fowl which I have only Seen on this river Photo: Sunrise at the Snake River, courtesy U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

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