On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
The Captains contemplate their ample supply of dried elk and salt, and they appreciate their dry Fort Clatsop huts. They ponder the Bitterroot mountain snow that postpones their return. Chinook fishing technology is explained.
From the journals...
Friday [Thursday] January 16th 1806.
we have plenty of Elk beef for the present and a little salt, our houses dry and comfortable
we should not therefore forward ourselves on our homeward journey by reaching the rocky mountains. early than the 1st of June
Captain Lewis sitting by the fire at Fort Clatsop
Friday [Thursday] January 16th 1806.
This evening we finished curing the meat.
Elk jerky
Thursday 16th
the rain & Storm high winds continues as usal.
Fort Clatsop
Friday [Thursday] January 16th 1806.
The Clatsops Chinnooks &c. in fishing employ the common streight net, the scooping or diping net with a long handle, the gig, and the hook and line.
Nootka fishing with spear
Friday [Thursday] January 16th 1806.
their hooks are generally of European manufactary, tho' before the whites visited them they made hooks of bone and other substances
Period fishing hook
