Clark’s party to see beached whale at Tillamook Head — John Ordway: January 8, 1806

went out from the fort a hunting.
1 The hunters, Potts, Collins, and Reuben Fields, had been out since Decem-
ber 28.
2 Lewis had now become “so perfectly reconciled to the dog that I think
it an agreeable food and would prefer it vastly to lean Venison or Elk.” Journal.
January 3. Clark, on the contrary, had not yet become “reconsiled” to dog
meat. Both captains observe, however, that the men were healthier, during
the period when dog meat was the principal article of food, than at any other
time since leaving the buffalo country.
3 With the party went Sacajawca. This had been no part of Clark’s plan,
but she was importunate on the subject and he yielded to her entreaties, “she
observed,” writes Lewis, “that she had traveled a long way with us to see the
great waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be seen, she thought
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