A break in the weather at Station Camp near present Chinook, Washington enables the main party to dry gear and for Clark to take celestial observations. Hunters find some success, and Sgt. Gass reflects on reaching the end of their voyage. Lewis is looking for ships at Cape Disappointment and adds Oregon boxleaf to his plant collection.
Finally Able to Move on Down
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A Break in the Weather
Station Camp (view west)
© 10 November 2008 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Above: In the distance can be seen Baker Bay and Cape Disappointment.
A Break in the Weather
a fine morning cool the latter part of the night, I had all our articles of every discription examined, and found much wet, had all put out & dried, The 5 [Chinook] Indians Theves left me.
Celestial Observations
I took a meridenal altitude with the Sextn. 50° 36′ 15 which gave for Lattitude 46*deg; 19′ 11 1/10″ North.
—William Clark
Hunting
I Sent out Several hunters and fowlers in pursute Elk, Deer, or fowls of any kind. . . . our hunters and fowlers killed 2 Deer 1 Crain & 2 Ducks, and my man York killed 2 geese and 8 Brant
—William Clark
Gass Reflects
We are now at the end of our voyage, which has been completely accomplished according to the intention of the expedition, the object of which was to discover a passage by the way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers to the Pacific ocean; notwithstanding the difficulties, privations and dangers, which we had to encounter, endure and surmount.
—Patrick Gass
Oregon Boxleaf
Paxistima myrsinites
Fort Clatsop National Historic Park, 18 December 2010. © by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Oregon Boxleaf Specimen
A Small Shrub about 4 feet high with a Small deep purple berry, evergreen! Near the Pacific Ocean Novbr: 16th 1805
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Paxistima myrsinites. Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen No. 119a.
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 16th W. S. W. fair —Meriwether Lewis[3]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
Middle Village-Station Camp is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site provides interpretation and is part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.
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. |
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| ↑2 | Paxistima myrsinites. Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen No. 119a. |
| ↑3 | Some abbreviations have been spelled out. |
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