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"American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature."
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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."
"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag."
"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."
"Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked."
"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."
"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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