# "The Journals of Lewis and Clark 1804-1806"
# Last edited on 2025-07-08 11:59:28 by stolfi
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# SOURCE AND CREDITS
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#   This is the full text of "The Journals of Lewis and Clark 1804-1806", 
#   by Meriwether Lewis and and William Clark, recording their
#   exploration of the North amrican West in 1804-1806.
#   
#   The first printed edition of the Journals (1814) was heavily
#   abridged (to ~25% of the original length) and edited by the
#   publisher Nicholas Biddle. The first publication of the full
#   original manuscripts by Lewis, Clark, and two other expedition
#   members, came out only in 1904 ("Original Journals of the Lewis and
#   Clark Expedition 1804-1806" in seven volumes, Edited by Reuben G.
#   Thwaites.) it is available in PDF scanned images at
#   "https://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-100/"
#
#   Besides including manuscript diaries from other expedition members,
#   Thwaite's 1904 edition also included some corrections and additions
#   made to the manuscripts well after the end of the expedition, including
#   by Clarke himself.  These additions are well-identified in the 1904 printed
#   edition (and the PDF files) by italics and/or brackets '[]'. For this
#   file it was decided to keep Clarke's corrections but exclude the others.
#   
#   The digital source for this file was an electronic version prepared by Bob
#   Webster and David Widger, fetched on 2025-07-05 from the Project
#   Gutemberg Project site "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8419/8419-h/8419-h.htm".
#   
#   Note by D. Widger prefixed to the Gutemberg Project file:
#     
#     These Journals are from May 14, 1804, the day the expedition left
#     the Mississippi River, to September 26, 1806, a day or two after
#     they arrived back in St. Louis. It includes all possible Journal
#     entries of Lewis and Clark. Most of the "courses and distances"
#     and "celestial observations" have been omitted. The notes and most
#     of the corrections of past editors have been removed. There are a
#     few OCR errors, but most of the misspellings are almost 200 years
#     old. The dates with the names in the brackets are a little
#     redundant. They are included to provide the correct date in a
#     consistent format.
#     
#     Project Gutemberg Editor's Note: Misspellings, inventive
#     punctuation and lack of punctuation along with variable
#     capitalization, and not entirely clear abbreviations have been
#     left as is. DW
#
#   The omitted "courses and distances" and "celestial observations"
#   material can be seen in the PDF files of the original manuscripts
#   cited above. 
#
#   The Project Gutemberg HTML file apparently contains both the abridged 
#   1814 edition and the full 1904 edition, with the entries interleaved in 
#   chrono order.  In this this file, only the entries from the original 
#   edition were retained.  ??? STILL DOING
#   
#   As far as I know, this text is in the public domain. Note on the 
#   source at the Project Gutemberg website:
# 
#     This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
#     almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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#  The language is mostly English prose in ASCII encoding, with
#  original (hence extremely inconsistent) spelling, punctuation and
#  capitalization; except that "~" is used for hyphen,
#  to distinguish it from punctuation dashes, and "#" for 
#  period of abbreviation, to distinguish it from final stop. 
#  
#  There are some lists and tables
#  scattered through some sections; these inserts have been marked
#  (see below).
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# DOCUMENT STRUCTURE  
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#     @section 1 {bod} = whole book.
#       @section 2 {day} = Entry for one day.
#         @section 3 {au} = Author of the entry.
#         @section 3 {dt} = Date of the entry.
#         @section 3 {txc} = Running text of entry by Clark.
#         @section 3 {txl} = Running text of entry by Lewis.
#         @section 3 {txlc} = Running text of entry by Lewis and Clark.
#         @section 3 {txcw} = Running text of entry by Clark and Whitehouse.
#         @section 3 {txo} = Running text of entry by Ordway.
#           @section 4 {sgn} = Signature, including titles and roles.
#           @section 4 {list} = List of things.
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# CHANGES FOR THIS VERSION
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#   The Project Gutemberg source file was extensively reformatted for statistical 
#   purposes by J. Stolfi.
#
#   The entries that came from the abridged/edited version were removed.
#   ??? STILL IN PROGRESS
#
#   A few misspelling that seemed to be due to transcribers rather than 
#   the authors were corrected:
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#      "Laid." --> "Latd."
#      "L. 5." --> "L. S." ("leeward shore").
#      "$cc"  --> "&c"
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#   Significant line breaks or ends (in lists, tables, indices, verse,
#   etc.) are marked with "÷". Indentation of a line in such cases is
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#   Abbreviation periods were replaced by "#". Note that in some cases the
#   "." may have been intended to be both abbreviation and punctuation, or
#   just punctuation.
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#   In the 1904 edition, and presumably in the manuscripts, abbreviations
#   with two or more letters, like "Isd" ("Island"), "2nd" ("second") or "3dly" ("thirdly")
#   usually ended with the last 1-3 letters ("d", "nd", "dly" in those examples)
#   raised as exponents, with 1-3 dots under them. In this file, I tried to 
#   indicate the number of such letters by the number of "#" marks. 
#   (Namely "Isd#", "2nd##", "3dly###". ??? STILL IN PROGRESS
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#   Abbreviations with a single letter, normally capitalized (Like "S" for
#   "south", "starboard", "shore" etc., or "R" for "river" or "Reuben")
#   used instead the same "." used for end-of-sentence ("S.", "R."), or
#   did not use any period, just the letter. In the former, the period
#   has been replaced by "#"; in the latter, the abbreviation has ben
#   left unmarked.
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#   The "-" was replaced by " ¬ " when used as punctuation, and by "~"
#   when used to hyphenate compounds.   Deleted a few of the latter that seemed to
#   be transcription errors like "morn-ing" (perhaps continuation hyphens
#   in the original which were not removed when the lines were joined).
#   But replaced them by "~" when they seemed to be intended as such by the
#   authors, as in "to-day", "yester-day", "to-morrow".
#   Replaced a few other "-" by spaces.
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#   Replaced "____" (blanks in the text) by " ¿¿ ".
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#   There were many small discrepancies between the HTML file and the
#   PDF files, such as missing punctuation and parag breaks, different
#   misspellings. Some may have been introduced inadvertently during
#   the conversion of the HTML to this file.  The occurrences of "&."
#   and "&c" may have been particularly affected.
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#   The HTML file often had "¬" in liew of punctualtion or parag breaks.
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