Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 1, 1806

set out after the Elk meat, the day Showery and wet. in the
1 The salt works were now abandoned, since the captains considered the
quantity of salt on hand sufficient to hist until the party should reach the supply
that had been cached <>n the upper Missouri the year before.
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 327
evening the party returned except four who Stayed out to hunt
& brought in the meat, the Indian Name of the River they
went up is Kil how-a-nak-kle and this River which we are on
Ne-lut.1