Ocean in view! O! The joy!

DMWJR

I wonder how many times this was uttered before they actually saw the Pacific?

ms70

It was probably never uttered. I'm guessing it's just a journal entry.

Spiffy469

I just finished Reading the Journals of Lewis and Clark and " ocean in view! O! The joy!" does not appear.

There is a Para graph that reads as follows:

Great joy in camp we are in view of the Ocian, this great Pacific Octean which we been so long anxious to See. and the roreing of noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey Shores (as I suppose) may be heard distinctly.

The errors in spelling are by Clark.

There is a footnote to this paragraph tho. IT reads:

In the notebook which he kept on his knee to record courses and bearings, Clark had written "Ocian in view! O! the joy." He was mistaken. Tonight's camp is near Pillar Rock and the ocean cannot be seen from there.


So the Ocean in view statement was actually recorded i the notebook that Clark used to record and plot his course and bearings, not their journals.


These Journals are a very interesting historical reading and I recommend anyone with a faint interest in Lewis and Clark to pick up a copy. "The Journals of Lewis and Clark" edited by Bernard DeVoto.




Jeff

lordmarcovan

I really like that design.