Sgt. Ordway faces freezing rain and blowing sand as his party hikes towards the salt makers’ camp at present Seaside, Oregon. At Fort Clatsop, Lewis describes the Columbian black-tailed deer and gives Pvt. Bratton Scot’s Pills.
Columbian Black-tailed Deer
Odocoileus hemionus
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Ordway’s Tough Trip
Set out eairly to go by land to the Salt works to bring in the Salt & baggage we proced. on to the praries crossed the prarie where the land is in ridges like the waves the frozen rain beat in our faces verry hard. we got on the coast crossd. a river where we waided to our middles and was glad to git in an old Indian house where we made a fire and Stayed all night. Sand flew & waves rold.
—John Ordway
Scot’s Pills
our Sick appear to Strengthen but Slowly I gave Bratten [William Bratton] 6 of Scotts pills which did not work him. he is very weak and Complains of his back.
—Meriwether Lewis
Columbian Black-tailed Deer
The Black tailed fallow deer [Columbian Black-Tailed Deer] are peculiar to this coast and are a distinct species of deer partaking equally of peculiarities of the mule deer and the common deer . . . . they are very seldom found in good order, or fat, even in the season which the common deer are so, and their flesh is inferior to any species of deer which I have evern seen.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Bringing the Elk
in the evening Sergt. Gass returned with the flesh of eight Elk, and seven skins; having left one skin with Shannon and Labuishe [Labiche] who remained over the netul to continue the chase. we had the Elk skins divided among the messes in order that they might be prepared for covering our baggage when we set out in the spring.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at aspect of the weather at 4 OC1 P.M. Wind at 4 O’Clock P.M. rain after rain S W. rain after rain S. W wind violent all day.
—Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of ye Month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
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Notes
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