Day-by-Day / January 8, 1806

January 8, 1806

A night at Ecola

Fort Clatsop and Ecola Creek, OR From Clark’s Point of View, the travelers see the “grandest and most pleasing prospects.” At Ecola, Tillamook Indians trade a little blubber. In the evening, McNeal‘s life is threatened.

Clark’s Point of View

from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in my frount a boundless Ocean . . . . inoumerable rocks of emence Sise out at a great distance from the Shore and against which the Seas brak with great force gives this Coast a most romantic appearance
William Clark

Whale at Ecola Creek

the Whale was already pillaged of every valuable part by the Kil a mox Inds. in the vecinity of whose village’s it lay on the Strand where the waves and tide had driven up & left it. this Skeleton measured 105 feet.
—William Clark

The Tillamook Nation

I enquired of those people as well as I could by Signs the Situation, mode of liveing & Strength of their nation . . . . The Kil â mox in their habits Customs manners dress & language differ but little from the Clatsops, Chinnooks and others in this neighbourhood
—William Clark

 

McNeal’s Folly

I Sent over Sergt. Pryor to Know the Cause of the allarm which he was informed that a Plot was laid to kill McNeal for his Blanket & Clothes by this Indian who was from another Villg at Some distance . . . . 2 men Came over & Slept at my feet. I kept a guard & Sentinel all night a fair night
—William Clark

Weather Diary

aspect of the weather at sun symbol rise Wind at sun symbol rise Weather at 4 OC. P.M. Wind at 4 OC. P.M.
fair N. E cloudy after fair S. E.

lost my P. M. obstn. for Equal Altitudes.
Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.

 

Notes

Notes
1 To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of the month” column and spelled out some 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.