Journal entry · March 9, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — John Ordway: March 9, 1806
John Ordway · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
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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