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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from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents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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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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[Clark:]
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[Lewis:]
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[Clark:]
  
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Chapter VII
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Chapter VIII PART I

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27th.. December 1804 Thursday—

a little fine Snow weather Something Colder than yesterday
Several Indians here to Day, much Suprised at the Bellos
(Bellows)[42] & method of makeing Sundery articles of Iron
Wind hard from the NW.[43]

 
[42]

Which they considered as a very great medicine.—Biddle (L. and C., i, p. 145).

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Here follows, in Biddle, a sketch of the Siouan tribes, mainly the same information
which we have thus far obtained from the MS. text.—Ed.

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