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DEPARTURE FROM FORT MANDAN ~ RETURN BARGE
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On April 7, 1805 - Departure from Fort Mandan,
North Dakota. The Corps proceed westward with the two
pirogues and six dugout canoes, Lewis and Clark decided that
the
keelboat would be difficult to transport and sent it
downstream with specimens they had collected, maps, and
detailed reports they had been working on since their
departure.
Captain Meriwether Lewis
writes:
"Having on this day at 4 PM completed every arrangement neccessary
for our departure, we dismissed the barge and crew with orders to return
without loss of time to St. Louis"
Corporal Richard Warfington's keelboat crew departed
Fort Mandan on April 7, 1805 - St. Louis bound. The precious cargo
onboard included; letters, Native American articles, reports, and live
animals.
Invoice of Items Sent to Washington
Invoice of articles
forwarded from Fort Mandan to the President of the United
States through Captn. Stoddard at St. Louis and Mr. H.B.
Trist the Collector of the Port of New Orleans.
Source:
National Archives
| No. |
Package |
Contents |
| 1 |
Box |
Skins of
the Male and female Antelope, with their skeletons.
[came.P.] |
| " |
do |
2 Horns
and ears, of the Black tail, or Mule Deer. [came] |
| " |
" |
A Martin
skin [came] containing the skin of a weasel [came.P.]
and three small squirels of the Rocky Mountains &
the tail of a Mule deer fully grown. [came.] |
| " |
" |
Skeletons of the small, or burrowing wolf of the
Prairies, the skin haveing been lost by accident.
[some skeletons came, not distin-guishable. Sent to
P.] |
| " |
" |
2
skeletons of the White Hare. [as above.P.] |
| " |
" |
A Mandan
bow with a quiver of arrows [came] the quiver
containing some seed of the Mandan tobacco.[came.] |
| " |
" |
A carrot
of Ricara tobacco. [came.] |
| 2 |
Box |
4
Buffalo robes, [came] and an ear of Mandan corn. |
| 3 |
Box |
Skins of
the male and female Antelope, with thier skeletons
[undistinguishable. P.] nand the skin of a brown, or
yellow Bear. |
| 4 |
Box |
Specimens of earths, salts, and minerals, numbered
from 1. to 67. [came.] |
| " |
" |
Specimens of plants numbered from 1 to 60. [came.]
[A. Ph. Society.] |
| " |
" |
1
earthen pot, such as the Mandans manufacture, and
use for culinary purposes. [came.] |
| " |
" |
1 tin
box containing insects, mice &c. |
| " |
" |
a
specimen of the fur of the Antelope. |
| " |
" |
a
specimen of the plant, and a parcel of its roots,
highly prized by the natives as an efficatious
remidy in the cure of the bite of the rattle snake,
or mad dog. in a Large Trunk Skin of a Male and
female Braro, or burrowing Dog of the Prairies, with
the skeleton of the female. [came. P.] |
| " |
in a
Large Trunk |
1 skin
of a red fox containing a Magpie. [came.] |
| " |
" |
2 cased
skins of the white hare. [came. P.] |
| " |
" |
1
Minetarre Buffalow robe, [came] containing some
articles of an Indian dress.[came.] |
| " |
" |
1 Mandan
Buffalow robe, [came] containing a dressed skin of
the Louisvire [came] and two cased skins of the
burrowing squirels of the Prairies. [came. P.] |
| " |
" |
13 red
fox skins [came.] |
| " |
" |
4 horns
of the mountian ram, or big horn. [came.] |
| " |
" |
1
Buffalow robe painted by a Mandan man representing a
battle which was faught 8 years since by the Siouxs
& Ricaras, against the Mandans, Minitarras &
Ahwahharways.[came.] |
| 6 |
Cage |
Containing four liveing Magpies. [came. P.] |
| 7 |
do. |
Containing a liveing burrowing squirel of the
prairies. [came. P.] |
| 9 |
do. |
Containing one liveing hen of the Prairie. |
| 10 |
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1 large
par of Elk’s horns connected by the frontal bone.
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The April 7, 1805 letter from Lewis to President
Jefferson included the following inventory of items that had
been collected thus far on the expedition and were being
sent back to Washington.
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