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Day 777 Day 779 Lewis, July 13, 1805 Saturday July 13th 1805. This morning being calm and Clear I had the remainder of our baggage embarked in the six small canoes and maned them with two…
Scene IVLondon. The Temple-gardenEnter the Earls of Somerset, Suffolk, and Warwick; Richard Plantagenet, Vernon, and another LawyerRichard PlantagenetGreat lords and gentlemen, what means…
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by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 12, 1805July 14, 1805July 13, 1805 Saturday July 13th 1805. This morning being calm and Clear I had the remainder of our baggage embarked…
Day 1341 Day 1343 Lewis, April 21, 1806 Monday April 21st 1806. Notwithstanding all the precautions I had taken with rispect to the horses one of them had broken his cord of 5 strands of…
In the Irish rebellion of 1798 Scullabogue House, Wexford, was seized by the rebels and used for a prison. Some thirty or forty prisoners confined in it were brought out and shot in cold…
To go poking about, meddling and making, in a listless, purposeless manner. Pudder, podder, pother, bother, and puddle are varieties of the same word. To pudder is to stir with a puddering…
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