History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri ...: Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1905 |
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animal antelopes ascended Assiniboins banks beautiful plain beaver bend bluffs boat brown bear buffalo called camp canoes captain Clark captain Lewis channel Chayenne chief chokecherry cliffs cloudy cold colour cottonwood course covered deer encamped falls five miles fork four miles half miles herds hills horses hundred yards hunters hunting inches Indians killed large island last night low grounds Mahas Mandans meridian altitude miles further miles we reached Minnetarees Missouri morning mountains mouth nation north side northwest o'clock observed opposite Osage Osage river party Pawnees periogue plain Porcupine river prairie prickly pear proceeded pumicestone quantities rain rapid returned Ricaras river rocks Rocky mountains sand sandbars seen sent shore Sioux skin small creek small island snow south side southeast species stone stream three miles timber tion to-day tribe twenty village weather willow island wind wood yards wide yesterday
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Pagina xxii - ... with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express purpose, I could have no hesitation in confiding the enterprise to him.
Pagina xxii - Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs and principles. Habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exuct observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed, honest, disinterested,...
Pagina 288 - ... they struck him several times, but instead of weakening the monster each shot seemed only to direct him towards the hunter, till at last he pursued two of them so closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of...
Pagina 343 - ... secondary interest ; his curiosity being, however, awakened, he determined to go on, even should night overtake him, to the head of the falls. He therefore pursued the southwest course of the river, which was one constant succession of rapids and small cascades, at every one of which the bluffs grew lower, or the bed of the river became more on a level with the plains. At the distance of two and a half miles he arrived at another cataract, of twenty-six feet.
Pagina xxii - ... expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you are appointed to carry them into execution. " Instruments for ascertaining by celestial observations, the geography of the country through which you will pass, have been already provided.
Pagina xxii - The interesting points of the portage between the heads of the Missouri & the water offering the best communication with the Pacific Ocean should also be fixed by observation, & the course of that water to the ocean, in the same manner as that of the Missouri.
Pagina 87 - ... was extreme; they burnt their village, and many of them put to death their wives and children, to save them from so cruel an affliction, and that all might go together to some better country.
Pagina 138 - Yanktons ; they consist of about one hundred cabins, made of white buffaloe hide dressed, with a larger one in the centre for holding councils and dances. They are built round with poles about fifteen or twenty feet high, covered with white skins ; these lodges may be taken to pieces, packed up, and carried with the nation wherever they go, by dogs which bear great burdens.
Pagina xxii - I then proposed to him to go by land to Kamschatka, cross in some of the Russian vessels to Nootka Sound, fall down into the latitude of the Missouri, and penetrate to and through that to the United States.
Pagina xxii - ... and should you be of opinion that the return of your party by the way they went will be imminently dangerous, then ship the whole, and return by sea, by the way either of Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope, as you shall be able. As you will be without money, clothes, or provisions, you must endeavour to use the credit of the United States to obtain them; for which purpose open letters of credit shall be furnished you, authorizing you to draw on the executive of the United States, or any of its...