Day-by-Day / December 30, 1805

December 30, 1805

A fair morning

Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR The journalists appear happy to see the sun, and Clark enjoys a “Sumptious” dinner of fresh elk tongue and marrow bones. With the pickets and gates completed, overnight guests are banned from the fort.

Fort Clatsop Reconstruction

Picketed wall and gate on a sunny day

© 2019 by Robert Heacock. Used by permission.

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A Fair Morning

a fair morning and a little Sun shine which is verry uncommon at this place. we finished puting up our pickets and gates of the fort.
—John Ordway

Related: Building Fort Clatsop | Fort Clatsop Today

Guests are Banned

at Sun Set we let The Indians know that, our Custom will be to Shut the gates at Sun Set, at which time, they must all go out of the fort those people who are verry foward and disegreeable, left the huts with reluctiance—
—William Clark

The visitors were Wahkiakums.

Sumptuous Supper

Drewyer returned and informed that he had killed 4 Elk at no great distance off, a party of 6 men was imediately dispatched for the meat, and returned at Dusk with the 4 Elk— we had a Sumptious Supper of Elks tongues & marrow bones which was truly gratifying—
—William Clark

 

Slug

Slimy, green tube on a log

Fort-to-Sea Trail, 1 April 2009. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Above: dappled skylight is reflected in the slug’s ‘slimy’ coating. No flash was used.

Slugs

I Saw flies & different kinds of insects in motion to day Snakes are yet to be seen, and Snales without Cover is Common and large, fowls of every kind Common to this quarter abound in the Creek & Bay near us
—William Clark

Weather Diary

Day of the Month Winds State of the Weather
30th S E. fair after rain

Hard wind & rain last night. to day tolerably fair.
—Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some of the abbreviations.

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Fort Clatsop is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site is managed by the Lewis and Clark National and State Historic Parks.

 

Notes

Notes
↑1 Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio.
↑2 To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some of the abbreviations.

Discover More

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.

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