History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1844 |
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animal appearance baggage bark berry black alder boats branch brown buffalo camp canoes Captain Clarke Captain Lewis Cataract River chief Chinnooks Chopunnish Clarke's River Clatsops colour Columbia common covered Creek crossed deep purple deer distance eight encamped Falls feet fish five forks Fort Clatsop four Gallatin River gave ground half halted hills horses houses hundred souls hunters inches Indians inhabitants island Killamucks killed Kooskooskee landed length Lewis's River lodges Mandans Minnetarees Missouri morning moschetoes mouth mule deer Multnomah nation nation-residing natives neighbourhood night o'clock party passed pine pirogue plains proceeded quamash radicles rain rapid reached red fox resembling Ricaras robes rocks Rocky Mountains roots route salmon sand-bar seacoast seen shore Shoshonees side Sioux skins smoking snow soon species squirrel tail timber Traveller's Rest tribes village wappatoo Wappatoo Island weather yards wide
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Seite 273 - One of the Indians slipped behind him, and unperceived, took his brother's and his own rifle, while at the same time, two others seized those of Drewyer and captain Lewis. As soon as Fields turned round, he saw the Indian running off with the rifles, and instantly calling his brother, they pursued him for fifty or sixty yards, and just as they overtook him, in the scuffle for the rifles, R. Fields stabbed him through the heart with his knife ; the Indian ran about fifteen steps and fell dead.
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