Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 9, 1806
On a cold day at Fort Clatsop, Ordway and ten others from the party hiked out to retrieve the meat from two elk that had been killed earlier. Soon after they returned to the fort, several Clatsop Indians arrived to trade, bringing small fish (eulachon) and a little bear's wax. The party purchased a few items from them. The day was largely focused on resupplying the fort with meat and engaging in modest trade with local Native visitors.
cold. I and 10 more of the party went and brought in the meat
of the 2 Elk. Shortly after we returnd Several of the Clatsop
Indians came to the Fort with some small fish and a little bears
wax to trade to us. we bought a fiew &C.
1 These rivers are now called, respectively, Lewis and Clark, and Young’s
or Klaskanine.
2 The eulachon. Clark thought it the most delicious fish he had ever eaten,
and David Starr Jordan concurs in his high estimate of its flavor.
328 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Mar. 10
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Cold. I and 10 more of the party went and brought in the meat of the 2 elk. Shortly after we returned, several of the Clatsop Indians came to the Fort with some small fish and a little bear's wax to trade to us. We bought a few, etc.
1 These rivers are now called, respectively, Lewis and Clark, and Young's or Klaskanine.
2 The eulachon. Clark thought it the most delicious fish he had ever eaten, and David Starr Jordan concurs in his high estimate of its flavor.
328 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Mar. 10
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