Journal entry · December 8, 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 8, 1805
John Ordway · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
ing by the tide last night, a hard white frost this morning, and
cold. 12 men was dispached with two canoes after Elk meat
Cap* Clark and 5 men went across by land to the ocean in order
to blaze a road and look out a place to make Salt &C. in the
evening the men returned with a fine chance of Elk meat, we
formed an Encampment &C.
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