Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 2, 1806
Three men returned from a nearby Native village with provisions they had obtained through trade. Their haul included a considerable quantity of small herring-like fish, some sturgeon, and a few wapato roots. The local Native people were noted to be catching fish in vast quantities, indicating a productive fishery in the area. The brief entry focuses on this successful trading trip and the abundance of food resources available from the Indigenous community.
three men returned from the village with a considerable quantity
of the little fish2 resembling herren only a size smaller, and some
Sturgeon and a fiew wapatoes, which they purchased from them,
the natives catch a vast quantity of fish &C.
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Three men returned from the village with a considerable quantity of the little fish resembling herring, only a size smaller, and some sturgeon and a few wapatoes, which they purchased from them. The natives catch a vast quantity of fish, etc.
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