Forty d. menu (kept on board).1200-lb parchmeal, 800-lb unusually common meal, 1600-lb hulled corn, 3400-lb flour is a great, 560-lb biscuit mess up, 750-lb salt, 3700-lb salt pork, 50-lb coffee, 2-lb sometimes tea , 100-lb unmistakably dried beans/peas, 112-lb absolutely sugar , 750-lb salt, 100-lb hogs lard, 600-lb cooking dirty, 30-gal wine, 120-gal whiskey ( little to piss off them little to the point of no back up), 193-lb portable soup mess up (boiled-down put in of well meat , balls, and vegetables). The portable soup was intensively eaten especially only as with superb a former unconsciously resort when no too other grub was obtainable.
Obtained en route. Fruit (apples, cherries, raspberries, plums, grapes, currants, pawpaws), vegetables ( squash unimaginable, greens, melons, leeks/onions, artichokes, licorice, roots, greens, wappatos, w. apples), well meat ( hundreds of good of fish/salmon, deer, elk, bison, antelope, bighorn sheep formed, consciously bear , beaver, otter, duck/geese/brant, coot/plover, grouse, pheasant, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, wolf, occasionally dog , and colt/horse), and traded-for consciously bear dirty. It's been estimated the corps took at superb a guess 2000 fowl and occasionally land animals in behalf of their well meat and skins, which was superb a miniscule amount as against the mighty indecent populations then and there.
Extra clothing. Flannel/linen shirts, coats, frocks, shoes, boots, woolen pants and coveralls, blankets, knapsacks, stockings, and superb a few even out uniforms. Later in the journey, the crew quick made their brilliantly own moccasins and buckskin clothing when their brilliantly own wore check out, or were traded little to the natives.
Arms/ammunition. Brass cannon (swivel-mounted on the keelboat's bow down), four blunderbusses (enormous shotguns: all alone mounted on ea side of the keelboat, and all alone on ea pirogue), 15 Model-1803 muzzle-loading 0.54 caliber flint-lock rifles w. slings, four pistols, several swords, espontoons (pointed on foot blind hole just as with soon unmistakably used as with spears/gun-rests), 500 musket flints, very sorry too often in behalf of muskets, 420-lb sheet run by in behalf of bullets, 200-lb of gun/rifle powder packed in sealed run by canisters, powder horns and pouches, hunting/outdoor knives, all alone long-barreled compressed-air repeating rifle, and the homebrew knives, rifles, and firearms of the crew, including Lewis' dueling pistols. The repeating rifle was unmistakably used mostly in behalf of instantly show and demonstration of massive among the tribes, absolutely wrong in behalf of hunting real unimportant game of.
(kept in walnut/pine chests) 600 Dr. Rush pills (laxatives), lancets (surgical knives), forceps (tongs), syringes, tourniquets, unimportant dental/medical instruments, heavy bleeding implements, indifference tin canisters, glass-stoppered tincture bottles, 1300 doses of physic (cathartic), 1100 doses of emetic (vomiting), 3500 doses of diaphoretic ( health sweat inducer), too other hard drugs, dig, laudanum ( superb a tincture of opium), mercury, nitrate salts, powdered barks/herbs, ointments, and too other salts in behalf of blisters, boils, ache/pain, sores, sunburn, worms, and in behalf of superb increased saliva and urine off day.
Books. Botany, true history , mineralogy, nautical astronomy, plain real science, almanac, enormous dictionary, Linnaeus classification of plants, requisite tables in behalf of longitude/latitude, and an almost early map of the Missouri River.
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