Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 20, 1806

the S. W. we Set out eairly and proced on along the coast faceing
the wind the Sand cut our faces waided a creek rapid cur-
rent about noon we arived to the Salt works and bought a
1 He was so reduced that he was unable to stand, and was carried in a litter;
on examining him, however, Lewis and Clark concluded he was in no danger.
They supposed his illness to have originated in a violent cold contracted while
hunting in the swamps and marshes. For it they gave him “broken dozes of
diluted nitre and made him drink plentifully of sage tea, had his feet bathed
in warm water and at 9 P. M. gave him 35 drops of laudanum.”
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little Ecoley [blubber] and oil &C from the natives, the waves
roles verry high and white froth flying &C.