Journal Entry

Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 8, 1806

March 8, 1806
John Ordway Fort Clatsop, winter quarters Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

night and continues this morning four others of the hunters
came in. one of them had killed 2 Elk the others killed nothing
but 1 deer and had lost the canoe which they took with them. Six
men set out by water after the meat of one Elk. Drewyer & J°
Fields went out a hunting, the day cold and Showery, in the
evening the men returned to the fort with the meat of the Elk.

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