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Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — Patrick Gass: March 2, 1806

March 2, 1806
Fort Clatsop, winter quarters Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

Editorial note: no detailed primary-source journal entry survives for March 2, 1806 that is distinct from the surrounding days. The Corps was active in the Fort Clatsop phase during this period.

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They returned at night, and brought with them some thousands of the same kind of small fish we got from the natives a few days ago, and also some sturgeon.

The Indian name for the river we were up yesterday is Kil-hou-a-nak-kle, and that of the small river which passes the fort is Ne-tul.

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