Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — John Ordway: March 24, 1806

John Ordway · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): left shore Columbia, 2 mi NE Brownsmead, OR

this morning and brought in the flesh of the 2 Elk killed by the
hunters yesterday, at half past 9 we set out and proceed on to
« Point Adams is the headland on the south side of the Columbia at the
junction of the river with the ocean.
2 For whom see ante, 328, note 1.
s In the mouth of John Day Creek, on the starboard side.
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332 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Mar. 25
the Cathlah-mah village1 at 12 m. and remainded till after
3 p. m. at this village, this is the dirtiest & Stinkenest place I
ever Saw.2 we proceeded on thro Some narrow channels between
the Seal Islands and the South Shore to an old village on South
Side opposite to the lower warkiacome village and Encamped to
[at] the old village3 a verry considerable deposit of the dead
at a Short distance below, in the usual customary way of the
natives of this coast in canoes raised from the Ground. Soon
after we landed and made fires 2 Indians came from the opposite
Side which could Speak some words of English and repeated the
names of the tradors and a number of the Sailors, &.C.