Meriwether Lewis Quotes

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• I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.
• A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a…
• On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving…
• The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and…
• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a…
• Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and…
• Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the…
• A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for…
• We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and…
• The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
• We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
• We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing…
• The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further,…
• The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in…

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