"A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort."
"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."
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Source: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.146
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