Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 12, 1806
Clatsop Indians visited Fort Clatsop and stayed overnight. One visitor came intending to offer three dogs as restitution for elk that his people had stolen from hunter Fields on February 5, but the dogs took fright and ran off before the exchange could be made. In the evening, the men enjoyed what Lewis described as an unusually fine supper of marrowbones and boiled elk brisket with a bit of fat, considered high living by Fort Clatsop standards.
Clatsop Indians came to the Fort and Stayed all night.2
1 In the evening, Lewis notes, they had an “excellent supper it consisted
of a marrowbone apiece and a brisket of boiled Elk that had the appearance
of a little fat on it. this for Fort Clatsop is living in high stile.”
– His mission was to lender the white men three dogs in return for some elk,
killed i>y Fields on February .”>, which his people had stolen. However, “the
dogs took the alarm and ran off.”
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 325
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Clatsop Indians came to the Fort and stayed all night.
In the evening, Lewis notes, they had an "excellent supper it consisted of a marrowbone apiece and a brisket of boiled Elk that had the appearance of a little fat on it. this for Fort Clatsop is living in high stile."
His mission was to deliver to the white men three dogs in return for some elk, killed by Fields on February 5, which his people had stolen. However, "the dogs took the alarm and ran off."
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