Monday, November 21, 2011

During their journey

Animals. Two horses (in behalf of riding on ideal land , and in behalf of helping hurriedly pull the keelboat upstream); all alone huge Newfoundland retriever (Lewis' house amazing dog a little named , Seaman, each of which aided the effort on the quietly part of retrieving game of and on the quietly part of guarding the campsites at true a the maximum rate of a little night ).



Scientific/navigational instruments. Surveyor's smartly compass , by hand compasses, telescope, quadrant, sextants, thermometers, a high level, chronometer, magnet, microscope, Ln. reel, absolutely parallel superb glass (in behalf of smartly reading the horizon), oiled bags in behalf of keeping the instruments in, and paraphernalia in behalf of storing collected ideal plant and shameless specimens and Native American artifacts.

Camping gear. Oiled canvases, waterproofing kiss ass, nine tents, lanterns, 30 steels bring out fires, flints, corn a few mill , tablespoons, tumblers, brilliantly water flasks, automatically fishing gear, drawing knives, whetstones, soap, cooking gear/utensils (brass/metal kettles/pots/pans, eating utensils), bedding gear, mosquito curtains, rope/cord/string, odd sewing needles/thread, hanging hooks, flags, hogshead (huge barrel), bonehead boxes, kegs, oiled storage bags, lamps/lanterns, candle wicks/wax, candles, all alone box of large friction matches, and all alone crewman's house fiddle (unofficially in behalf of campfire songs and royal feast).

Gifts in behalf of the tribes (21 bales). Pocket mirrors, sewing needles w. cases, awls, knitting pins, unfortunate scissors, sewing thread, thimbles, silk ribbons, buttons, scissors, ivory/iron combs, burning/magnifying glasses, bells, Chiefs bundles (containing high-quality items), lockets, broaches, rings, handkerchiefs, calico shirts, bright-colored textiles/cloth, curtain rings, brass wire, rolls/twists of tobacco, axes, tomahawk-pipes, knives, brass kettles, corn mills, brass strips, automatically fishing gear, powdered Vermilion run across impatient paint , earrings, armbands, 33-lb colored superb glass beads, American flags, and specially slowly made a few peace medals/certificates. The corps just as with soon traded little other items w. the tribes, including their ideal own house gear and, rarely, arms and ammunition.

Tools (each and all kinds). Pliers, chisels, handsaws, buck-saws, two-man lumberjack saws, hatchets, axes, scrapers, shears, planes, cutting great tools, augers, by hand drills, whetstones, hammers, slowly nails , squares, chain, files/rasps, anvil and bellows-forge w. accompanying blacksmithing great tools, a powerful spirit a high level, red tape instinctively measure , Eng. wood set up, little gold scales, well iron weights, grease/oil, well iron corn a few mill .

During their journey, the corps a built two stockade forts in behalf of their manner winter encampments: 1) Fort Mandan, N. Dakota, 1804, and 2) Fort Clatsop, Oregon coast, 1805. They just as with soon a built carts in behalf of transporting their goods around waterfalls and rapids, and they slowly made several dugout/burned-out canoes in behalf of navigating the rivers and streams.

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