XLV. XLV
LEWIS TO CLARK
XLV. [From original MS. in possession of Mrs. Julia Clark Voorhis and Miss Eleanor Glasgow Voorhis.]
Dear Friend: I cannot hear of or find the hair pipes. The articles
you sent by Sergt. Floyd wer duly received. The mail has not arrived.
The Osages will set out about the 10th.. I return you the memorandum
you inclosed me with remarks on several particulars therein contained.
I send you 19 small flaggs, 16 musquetoe nets and our shirts—pray send
down as soon as possible 13 Ells of the brown linin purchased of
Morrison to replace that quantity borrowed of Mr. Gratiott, also the
case with the maps, and the specimines of salt which you will find in
my writing desk, on the shelves where our books are, or in the drawer
of the instrument case.
The pay of the men will commence from the dates of their last
inlistments and will be made up to the last of November 1804 at the
regular wages of soldiers & Sergts. &c—including the bounty of such
as are intitled to it which is not the case with those whose former
inlistments did not expire before the said 31st of November. Other
receipt rolls will be made out for 5 dollars pr month as an advance on
the score of Cloathing and provisions not furnished by the government
—this to commence with those inlisted in Kentucky from the dates of
their inlistments, all others from the 1st of January 1804. Mr. Choteau
has procured seven engaged to go as far as the Mandanes—but they
will not agree to go further, and I found it impossible to reduce them to
any other engagement than that usually made with those people.
Your sincere friend
M. Lewis in haist
