Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 8, 1806
Cold, showery weather continued overnight and into the morning. Four more hunters returned to the fort, reporting that one had killed two elk while the others had taken only a single deer and had lost the canoe they had taken with them. Six men set out by water to retrieve the meat from one of the elk. Drouillard and Joseph Fields went out hunting. By evening, the party sent for the elk meat returned to the fort with their load.
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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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 (Drouillard) and Jo. Fields went out 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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