Fort Clatsop, salt works established — John Ordway: December 28, 1805

last night and informed us that a verry large fish was drove to
Shore on the coast and that their women wer packing the oil and
meat, our offi-Cap* Lewis and three men got ready to go with
a canoe to See the whail as we expect it is, but the wind and
Storm arose So high that they could not go five men Set out
by land with kittles to go over to the Sea coast to form a Camp
and make Some Salt, three men went across the River a hunt-
ing in the evening 2 hunters returned had killd one Deer.