Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 20, 1806
The party set out early and traveled along the coast against a strong southwest wind that blew sand into their faces. They forded a creek with a rapid current and arrived around noon at the salt works, where they purchased a small amount of whale blubber and oil from local natives. The waves along the coast were running very high with white froth blowing off them. A sick member of the party was being treated with diluted nitre, sage tea, warm foot baths, and laudanum.
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.”
326 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Feb. 21
little Ecoley [blubber] and oil &C from the natives, the waves
roles verry high and white froth flying &C.
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The wind was from the southwest. We set out early and proceeded on along the coast facing the wind. The sand cut our faces. We waded a creek with a rapid current. About noon we arrived at the salt works and bought a little Ecoley [blubber] and oil, etc., from the natives. The waves rolled very high, with white froth flying, etc.
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