Journal Entry
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 10, 1805
December 10, 1805
hands wen[t] at clearing away the ground for the huts, rained
hard the most of the day, towards evening Cap* Clark and 3 of
his party returned from the ocean and informed us that it was
about 7 miles to the ocean the way they blazed a road, they was
at a Small village of the Clatsop nation of Indians on the coast,
they treated them in a friendly manner, considerable of prarie
land on the Coast &C. Some low marshes also.
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