Fort Clatsop, salt works established — John Ordway: December 27, 1805

in our huts which made them much more comfortable than
before, in the evening Several Savages came to the Fort, hard
rain all day.
‘The naming of the fort is noted by (iass only on Jan. 1, 1806. Neither
of the captains records this detail at all.
2 Gass writes in a strain of similar optimism. Captain Clark, on the con-
trary, manifests a less cheerful disposition, “we would have Spent this day,”
he writes, “the nativity of Christ in feasting, had we anything either to raise
our Sperits or even gratify our appetities, our Diner concisted of pore Elk, so
much Spoiled that we eate it thro’ mear necessity, Some Spoiled pounded fish
and a fiew roots.”
1805] SERGEANT ORDWAVS JOURNAL 319