Journal entry · March 7, 1806

Fort Clatsop, winter quarters — Patrick Gass: March 7, 1806

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

The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters

fell occasionally during the day. Among our other difficulties
we now experience the want of tobacco, and out of 33 persons
composing our party, there are but 7 who do not make use of
it: we use crab-tree bark as a substitute. In the evening one
of our hunters came in and had killed an elk a considerable
distance off.

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