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... provisions , completed the train . It started on the morning of Friday , the 10th of June . Mr. Choteau accompanied the party until they met an Indian , whom he had engaged to conduct them some forty miles , thus giving them a fair ...
... provisions , completed the train . It started on the morning of Friday , the 10th of June . Mr. Choteau accompanied the party until they met an Indian , whom he had engaged to conduct them some forty miles , thus giving them a fair ...
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... provision . It was a loss which none but a traveller in a strange and inhospitable country can appreciate ; and often afterward , when excessive toil and long marching had overcome us with fatigue and weariness , we remembered and ...
... provision . It was a loss which none but a traveller in a strange and inhospitable country can appreciate ; and often afterward , when excessive toil and long marching had overcome us with fatigue and weariness , we remembered and ...
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... provision . They gave us the welcome intelligence that the buffalo were abundant some two days ' march in advance , and made us a present of some choice pieces , which were a very acceptable change from our salt pork . In the ...
... provision . They gave us the welcome intelligence that the buffalo were abundant some two days ' march in advance , and made us a present of some choice pieces , which were a very acceptable change from our salt pork . In the ...
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... provisions , and baggage ; the last two articles not being of very great weight . The instruments consisted of a sextant , artificial horizon , & c . , a barometer , spy - glass , and compass . The chronometer I of course kept on my ...
... provisions , and baggage ; the last two articles not being of very great weight . The instruments consisted of a sextant , artificial horizon , & c . , a barometer , spy - glass , and compass . The chronometer I of course kept on my ...
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... provisions , but I could make a fire ; and , as I espied two doves in a tree , I tried to kill one ; but it needs a better marksman than myself to kill a little bird with a rifle . I made a large fire , however , lighted my pipe — this ...
... provisions , but I could make a fire ; and , as I espied two doves in a tree , I tried to kill one ; but it needs a better marksman than myself to kill a little bird with a rifle . I made a large fire , however , lighted my pipe — this ...
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