Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 18, 1806
Thunder rolled through the day as the party worked on repairing their small canoes. Needing an additional canoe, four men crossed over to the prairie near the coast to take one belonging to the Clatsop Indians. In the evening, two of the men returned by land, having killed an elk along the way. The others brought the canoe back near the fort and hid it, since the Clatsop chief was visiting at the time.
Some Thunder, we repair the Small canoes. 4 men went over to
the prarie near the coast to take a canoe which belongd to the
Clatsop Indians, as we are in want of it. in the evening they re-
turned 2 of them by land and killd an Elk. the others took the
canoe near the fort and concealed it, as the chief of the Clatsops is
now here.2
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Some thunder. We repaired the small canoes. Four men went over to the prairie near the coast to take a canoe that belonged to the Clatsop Indians, as we are in need of it. In the evening they returned, two of them by land, and they killed an elk. The others took the canoe near the fort and concealed it, as the chief of the Clatsops is now here.
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