Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 17, 1805
Rain continued through the morning as the party worked on completing their winter quarters. The men chinked the gaps in their huts and split planks for construction. They also butchered their meat and hung it in the meat house for storage. The day was spent on routine camp-building and provisioning tasks as the expedition settled into their winter encampment.
and continues this morning, we went at chinking up our huts
and Splitting plank &C. cut our meat & hung it in the meat
house &C.
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And it continues this morning. We went on chinking up our huts and splitting planks, etc. Cut our meat and hung it in the meat house, etc.
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