From Clark’s Point of View above Ecola, Clark’s small group enjoys the “grandest and most pleasing prospects”. At Ecola, Tillamook Indians trade a little blubber, and Pvt. McNeal‘s life is threatened.
Lewis and most of the enlisted men continue their daily routine at Fort Clatsop.
Clark’s Point of View
from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in my frount a boundless Ocean . . . . inoumerable rocks of emence Sise out at a great distance from the Shore and against which the Seas brak with great force gives this Coast a most romantic appearance
—William Clark
Whale at Ecola Creek
the Whale was already pillaged of every valuable part by the Kil a mox Inds. in the vecinity of whose village’s it lay on the Strand where the waves and tide had driven up & left it. this Skeleton measured 105 feet.
—William Clark
The Tillamook Nation
I enquired of those people as well as I could by Signs the Situation, mode of liveing & Strength of their nation . . . . The Kil â mox in their habits Customs manners dress & language differ but little from the Clatsops, Chinnooks and others in this neighbourhood
—William Clark
McNeal’s Folly
I Sent over Sergt. Pryor to Know the Cause of the allarm which he was informed that a Plot was laid to kill McNeal for his Blanket & Clothes by this Indian who was from another Villg at Some distance . . . . 2 men Came over & Slept at my feet. I kept a guard & Sentinel all night a fair night
—William Clark
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at Weather at 4 OC. P.M. Wind at 4 OC. P.M. fair N. E cloudy after fair S. E. lost my P. M. obstn. for Equal Altitudes.
—Meriwether Lewis1
Notes
- To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
