Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — John Ordway: March 31, 1806

Set out eairly and proceed on passd a village which was a large
one when we went down last fall but the Savages are more Scat-
tered along the River in fishing parties &C. only 2 cabbins left
at this village on the South Shore in a large bottom, the wind
rose from the Southward, a number of the savages followed us
with their canoes, one of our hunters killed a deer & Saw a
1 The camp was seven miles, according to Lewis, below that of November 1;
it w:is also two miles below the bead of Bachelor’s Island.
2 Modem Sauvie Island.
3 At or near the site of old Fori Vancouver, and the modern city of Van-
couver, Wash. Fort Vancouver was long an important fur-trading station:
tins was succeeded by a military establishment of the regular army. General
Grant was stationed here in 1852-53, and General Sheridan a few years later.
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 335
great number more Deer & Elk in these bottoms &C. this morn-
ing, in the evening we passed the m° of Seal River1 on N. Side
the waves high, we Encamped a Short distance above sd River
on a handsom high plain of rich land & timber near this is
opposite the mouth of Quick Sand River which puts in on south
side & is high at this time.