History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean: Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. By Order of the Government of the United States, Band 1Pub by Bradford and Inskeep, 1814 |
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... o'clock in the night he did the deed which plunged his friends into affliction , and deprived his country of one of her most valued citizens , whose valour and intelligence would have been now employed in avenging the wrongs of his coun ...
... o'clock in the night he did the deed which plunged his friends into affliction , and deprived his country of one of her most valued citizens , whose valour and intelligence would have been now employed in avenging the wrongs of his coun ...
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... o'clock , and at four miles distance encamped on the south- side , above a small creek , called Deer creek . The next day , 30th , we set out early , and at two miles distant reached a large cave , on the north , called Montbrun's ...
... o'clock , and at four miles distance encamped on the south- side , above a small creek , called Deer creek . The next day , 30th , we set out early , and at two miles distant reached a large cave , on the north , called Montbrun's ...
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... o'clock we met a raft made of two canoes joined toge- ther , in which two French traders were descending , from eighty leagues up the river Kanzas , where they had win- tered , and caught great quantities of beaver , but had lost much ...
... o'clock we met a raft made of two canoes joined toge- ther , in which two French traders were descending , from eighty leagues up the river Kanzas , where they had win- tered , and caught great quantities of beaver , but had lost much ...
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... o'clock , we met two rafts loaded , the one with furs , the other with the tallow of buffaloe ; they were from the Si- oux nation , and on their way to St. Louis ; but we were fortu- nate enough to engage one of them , a Mr. Durion ...
... o'clock , we met two rafts loaded , the one with furs , the other with the tallow of buffaloe ; they were from the Si- oux nation , and on their way to St. Louis ; but we were fortu- nate enough to engage one of them , a Mr. Durion ...
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... o'clock the next morning . The current was so rapid and the banks on the north falling in so constantly , that we were obliged to approach the sandbars on the south . These were moving continually , and formed the worst passage we had ...
... o'clock the next morning . The current was so rapid and the banks on the north falling in so constantly , that we were obliged to approach the sandbars on the south . These were moving continually , and formed the worst passage we had ...
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animal antelopes ascending Assiniboins baggage banks beautiful plain beaver bend bluffs boat brown bear buffaloe called Cameahwait camp canoes captain Clarke captain Lewis chief chokecherry cliff cold colour continued cottonwood course covered deer Drewyer eight encamped falls five miles forks formed four miles gave grass half miles hills horses hundred yards hunters hunting inches Indians killed large island last night low grounds Mandans miles further Minnetarees Missouri morning mountains mouth musquitoes nearly north side northwest o'clock observed opposite Osage river party Pawnees periogue plain prairie prickly pear proceeded quantities rain rapid returned Ricaras river river till rocks Rocky Rocky mountains sand sandbars seen sent serviceberries shore Shoshonees Sioux skin small creek small island snow south side southwest species stream three miles three quarter miles timber to-day twenty village warriors weather willow island wind yards wide yesterday
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Seite ii - Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof...
Seite xiii - Instruments for ascertaining, by celestial observations, the geography of the country through which you will pass, have been already provided. Light articles for barter and presents among the Indians, arms for your attendants, say for from...
Seite ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Seite xi - In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands and follow the best water communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean.
Seite xviii - To your own discretion, therefore, must be left the degree of danger you may risk and the point at which you should decline, only saying, we wish you to err on the side of your safety, and to bring back your party safe, even if it be with less information.
Seite xii - Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves.
Seite 213 - ... so closely that they threw aside their guns and .pouches and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him; they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions ; the bear was old and the meat tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp, where we had been as...
Seite 256 - ... sound of a fall of water, and as he advanced a spray which seemed driven by the high southwest wind arose above the plain like a column of smoke and vanished in an instant. Towards this point...
Seite xiv - The commerce which may be carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue, renders a knowledge of these people important. You will therefore endeavor to make yourself acquainted, as far as a diligent pursuit of your journey shall admit...
Seite 231 - Indian or decoy, who leads them on at full speed towards the river, when suddenly securing himself in some crevice of the cliff which he had previously fixed on, the herd is left on the brink of the precipice: it is then in vain for the foremost to retreat or even to stop; they are pressed on by the hindmost rank, who, seeing no danger but from the hunters, goad on those before them till the whole are precipitated and the shore is strewed with their dead bodies.