Journal entry · February 17, 1806

Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — Patrick Gass: February 17, 1806

Patrick Gass · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

fort and arrived there in the afternoon. We found the sick
men at the fort, and still very bad. One of the men brought
word from the salt works, that they had made about 4 bushels
of salt; and the Commanding Officers thought that would be
sufficient to serve the party, until we should arrive at the
Missouri where there is some deposited.

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