Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: February 22, 1806
Ordway reports feeling somewhat better, though still aching and uncomfortable. Other sick members of the party are also slowly recovering. Several Native visitors came to the fort bringing skillfully made split-cedar hats to trade or show. Drouillard left the fort to visit a nearby Native village. The entry is brief, focused on the ongoing illness affecting the men, the modest improvements in their condition, and routine interactions with the local Indigenous community near Fort Clatsop.
Some better. I am full of pains but not verry sick, the rest of
the Sick are mending a little. Several of the natives came to the
Fort with some of their Split a chip hats which are Engeaneously
made Drewyer went to the village &C.
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Somewhat better. I am full of pains but not very sick. The rest of the sick are mending a little. Several of the natives came to the Fort with some of their split-a-chip hats, which are ingeniously made. Drewyer (Drouillard) went to the village, etc.
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