Daily Editing

we were informed day before yesterday that a whale had foundered on the coast to the S.W.

the greater part of the Clat Sops were gorn for the oile & blubber,
William Clark

Clark would not see the beach where the whale floundered until January 8.

Small creek entering the ocean through the sand

Fort Clatsop

all hands employed about the Pickets & gates of the fort.
Joseph Whitehouse

Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia)

this evining a young Chief 4 Men and 2 womin of the War ci a cum Nation arrived, and offered for Sale Dressed Elk Skins and Wap pa to, the Chief made us a preasent of about ½ a bushel of those roots.
William Clark

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Large potato-like bulbs

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Flea (Siphonaptera)

The flees are So noumerous and hard to get rid of;
that the Indians have different houses which they resort to occasionally, not withstanding all their precautions they never Step into our house without leaveing Sworms of those tormenting insects;
and they torment us in Such a manner as to depreive us of half the nights Sleep frequently-
-William Clark-

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Microscope photograph of very creepy looking bug

Photo from the Center for Disease Control