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.
Meriwether LewisThe musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
Meriwether LewisCaptain 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 LewisThe 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.
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