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

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents
Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)
  
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
CONTENTS TO VOL. I
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA
  
The Original Journals of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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Chapter I
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Chapter II
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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[Clark:]
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[Orderly Book; Clark:]
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[Clark:]
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[Orderly Book; Clark:]
  
[Lewis:]
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[Clark:]
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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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Chapter VII
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Chapter VIII PART I

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4th.. of December Tuesday 1804—

a cloudy raw Day wind from the N.W. the Black cat and
two young Chiefs Visit us and as usial Stay all Day the river
rise one inch fini[s]h the main bastion, our interpetr. (Jessaume)
we discover to be assumeing and discontent'd.[31]

 
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Biddle here makes a brief statement of the religious belief and origin-myth of the
Mandan; cf. therewith Catlin's Illust. N. Amer. Inds. (London, 1866), i, pp. 156,
157, 177–183, and Maximilian's Voyage, ii, pp. 418–436.—Ed.

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