Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: January 11, 1806
Overnight, seven men took a canoe to retrieve elk meat while others searched for a missing small canoe. The party returned in the evening with the meat. The entry also includes editorial notes referencing the expedition's travels along the Oregon coast near Nehalem Bay in Tillamook County, the Nehalem River, and Tillamook Head, which Clark had first sighted from Cape Disappointment on November 18, 1805. A brief quoted remark mentions someone who had not yet been permitted to see the ocean.
landing last night, & went away. Some time last night 7 men
went with a canoe after the Elk meat several more went to
look for the Small canoe, towards evening we returned with
the meat &C.
it very hard she could not be permitted to see either (she had never yet been to
the Ocean).”
1 The party had traveled along the coast to a point in the vicinity of Nehalem
Bay, in Tillamook County.
2 Modern Nehalem River.
3 Tillamook Head. It had been first seen by Clark from Cape Disappoint-
ment on Nov. 18, 1805, on his first excursion to the shore of the Pacific.
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landing last night, and went away. Sometime last night 7 men went with a canoe after the elk meat. Several more went to look for the small canoe. Toward evening we returned with the meat, etc.
it very hard she could not be permitted to see either (she had never yet been to the Ocean)."
1. The party had traveled along the coast to a point in the vicinity of Nehalem Bay, in Tillamook County.
2. Modern Nehalem River.
3. Tillamook Head. It had been first seen by Clark from Cape Disappointment on Nov. 18, 1805, on his first excursion to the shore of the Pacific.
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