Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 18, 1805

sent3 with 2 canoes across the bay after Some plank, they
returned towards evening with the canoes loaded with plank
which they took from Some old fishing Camps, a little hail
and frozen rain & cold.
1 Two diagrams of the fort, drawn by Clark, are reproduced by Thwaites
(III, 268, 298). Neither of them agrees with Ordway’s description.
2 “The winds violent Trees falling in every derection, whorl winds, with
gusts of rain Hail & Thunder, this kind of weather lasted all day, Certainly
one of the worst days that ever was!” Clark.
3 Clark records this trip as occurring December 19. In similar fashion- the
visit from the savages noted by Ordway December 19 is given by Clark as of
December 20.
318 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Dec. 19