Today we opened and examined all our ammunition, which had been secured in leaden canisters.

we found the powder in good order, perfectly as dry as when first put in the canesters...
Meriwether Lewis

A clear cold morning.
-Joseph Whitehouse-

Some of the large Canoes are upwards of 50 feet long and will Carry from 8 to 12 thousand lbs. or from 20 to 30 persons, and Some of them particularly on the Sea Coast are waxed painted and ornimented with curious images on bow and Stern; those images sometimes rise to the hight of five feet; the pedestile on which these images are fixed, are Sometimes cut out of the Solid Stick with the Canoe, and the image is formed of Separate pieces of timber firmly united with tenants and mortices without the appearance of a Single Spike or nail of any kind.
-William Clark-