Eureka Washington
Lewis & Clark
Trail
William Clark described Fishhook Rapids which they would tackle the next morning, October 16: "at the lower part of this bason is a bad dificuelt and dangerous rapid to pass...." On the 16th he reported on the encounter with "bason Rapids." "passed the rapid with all the canoes except Sgt Pryors which ran on a rock near the lower part of the rapid and Stuck fast, by the assistance of the three other Canoes She was unloaded without any further injury...." (See lct243b for Clark's map of "bason Rapids" - now Fishhook Rapids).
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