Camping on the Clearwater River in present-day Idaho, the Corps of Discovery made dugout canoes from pine logs, adopting the Indian method of burning them out for expediency, then using axes and adzes to shape the canoes and remove the charred wood from the inside. Despite many of the men being sick, they built five canoes in ten days. Shortly after leaving the Clearwater camp, Clark wrote on October 7, 1805, that the canoe in which he was traveling struck a rock and sprang a leak in the third rapid, but they proceeded on. The explorers first saw and purchased a Chinookan canoe near The Dalles, and on October 23, 1805, Clark wrote that these canoes were neater made than any he had ever seen and were calculated to ride the waves and carry immense burdens. The Corps of Discovery arrived at this site in its four dugout canoes and one Indian canoe on December 7, 1805, to establish Fort Clatsop as its winter quarters. During the Corps' sojourn there, this place along the river, now the Lewis and Clark River, served as the expedition's canoe landing, and on January 14, 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis reported that one of the large perogues had broken the chord by which it was attached and the tide had taken it off, prompting the party to draw three of the perogues up out of reach of the tide and moor the fourth in the small branch near the landing.