Quotes by Meriwether Lewis - Page 1

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.
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Coward
Hard
Strong
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Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole.
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Caught
Holes
Water
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As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
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Enchantment
Scene
Visionaries
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The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
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Dog
Howl
Torture
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We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
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Boisterous
Different Kinds
Grain
Last Night
Indians
Purchase
Winds
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As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
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Believe
Crime
Evil
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
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Absence
Deer
Foxes
Hunters
Two
Weather
Fox
Hare
Moderate
Returned
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Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
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Cold
Frost
Hunting
Last Night
Night
Numbers
Pleasant
White
Camp
Excursion
Indians
Pass
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Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Men
Eighteen
Hunting
Meat
Twelve
Yesterday
Captain
Clarke
Hunt
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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Government
Acquisition
Attention
Exploring
Improving
Louisiana
New Territory
States
Territory
United States
Years
Directed
Early
Towards
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The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Cold
Country
Two
Wind
Account
Fair
Day Country People
Indians
Near
Rocky
Rocky Mountains
Visited
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The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Cold
Evening
Hunters
Party
Weather
Became
Captain
Clarke
Intensely
Remained
Returned
Sent
Several
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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Morning
Caught
Cold
Gray
Last Night
Night
Wind
Time Morning Night
Fort
Neighbourhood
Obtained
Trap
Wolf
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A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Children
Corn
Medicine
Brought
Carry
Cheerfully
Lower
Offered
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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Black
Fortunate
Frenchmen
Last Summer
Missouri
Mountain
Summer
Descended
Engage
Indians
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We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Extremity
Flight
Geese
Indian
Numbers
Passing
South
Wild
Perfectly
Procure
Tail
Weasel
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The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
Meriwether Lewis / Explorer
Landing
Last Night
Miles
Passing
Rain
Ten
Yesterday
Opposite
Stopped
Further
Island
Piper
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