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pages 94-95

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025av http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,321
Title pages 94-95
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-07
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Description dashed to pieces against the rocks. They had not the prudence to take out either their blankets or small quantity of provisions, which were of course all lost. Here then the poor fellows found themselves deprived of all the necessaries of life, and at a period of the year when it was impossible to procure any wild fruit or roots. To return to the mountains was impossible, and their only chance was to proceed downward, and to keep as near the banks of the river as circumstances would permit....

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