Journal entry · March 16, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — Patrick Gass: March 16, 1806
Patrick Gass · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
rain; and the rain has continued all day. The Indians staid
about the fort the whole of this day. Yesterday while I was
absent, getting our meat home, one of the hunters killed two
vultures, the largest fowls I had ever seen. I never saw any
such as these except on the Columbia river and the seacoast.
On the 17th it rained occasionally during the whole of the
day. We got a canoe from the natives, for which we gave an
officer’s uniform coat.
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