Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 17, 1806
Hunters returned to the fort with elk meat, including one retrieved from a creek. Sergeant Gass and two men came back after killing eight elk, two of which they jerked. Other men killed a gray eagle and an unfamiliar type of turkey buzzard. A man arrived from the salt works requesting help to transport the salt and kettles back to the fort. Drouillard and Whitehouse also returned, having killed one elk.
hunters came in with the meat of an Elk which they took out
of a creek where some of the hunters had killed [it] in the after
part of the day Sg* Gass and 2 men returned to the Fort, they
had killed Eight Elk, and jurked 2 of them. Some of the men
killed a gray Eagle and a new kind of a Turkey buzzard one
man came from the Salt works for help to move in the Salt &
kittles Drewyer & Whitehouse came in had killed one Elk.
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Hunters came in with the meat of an elk which they took out of a creek where some of the hunters had killed it. In the latter part of the day, Sgt. Gass and 2 men returned to the Fort. They had killed eight elk, and jerked 2 of them. Some of the men killed a gray eagle and a new kind of turkey buzzard.
One man came from the salt works for help to move in the salt and kettles. Drewyer (Drouillard) and Whitehouse came in, having killed one elk.
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