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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

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Wednesday 24th of September 1806

I sleped but little last night however we rose early and
commenc[e]d wrighting our letters Capt Lewis wrote one to
the presidend[31] and I wrote Govr. Harrison[32] & my friends in
Kentucky and Sent of[f] George Drewyer with those letters
to Kohoka & delivered them to Mr. Hays &c. we dined with
Mr. Chotoux to day, and after dinner went to a store and


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purchased some clothes, which we gave to a Tayler and derected
to be made. Capt. Lewis in opening his trunk found
all his papers wet, and some seeds spoiled.

 
[31]

See our vol. vii, Appendix, for Lewis's letter to Jefferson; also Clark's letter to
George Rogers Clark (Sept. 24), Clark's letter to Charbonneau (Aug. 20), and contemporary
newspaper notices of the expedition.

[32]

William Henry Harrison, then Governor of the Northwest Territory, with headquarters
at Vincennes. See Clark's earlier letter to him from Fort Mandan, in our
vol. vii, Appendix.—Ed.