Journal entry · March 18, 1806

Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 18, 1806

John Ordway · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

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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