At Canoe Camp in July 1806, a party of thirteen that included Sacajawea and Pomp prepared to continue its journey by carving out a canoe, hunting, dressing skins, making clothing because they were nearly naked, and drying meat for provisions. Their horses were fatigued and their feet were very sore, so they were allowed to rest for a few days, but on the 21st Clark learned that half, or twenty-four, of the horses were missing and sent Shannon, Bratton, and Shabono to search for them. The horses were never found, and Clark began to suspect that Indians had taken them. On the evening of the 23rd, the two canoes were put into the water, lashed together, and made ready for an early departure the next morning. Clark also had handles fitted to three axes and, after sharpening them with a file, felled two trees for the two canoes, expecting them to produce canoes twenty-eight feet long, about sixteen or eighteen inches deep, and sixteen to twenty-four inches wide.