What things did Lewis and Clark bring with them on the expedition?

Answer 1

List of Supplies (In their original text)

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Mathematical InstrumentsHadley's Quadrant

Mariner's Compass & 2 pole chain

Set of plotting instruments

Thermometers

Cheap portable microscope

Pocket compass

Brass scale (1ft in length)

Magnetic needles in small straight silver or brass cases opening on the side with hinges

Instrument for measuring made of tape with feet and inches marked on it

Hydrometers

Theodolite

Set of planespheres

Artificial Horizons

Patent log

Papers of ink powder

Metal pens of brass and silver

Set of small slates & pencils

Creyons [not in the sense that we know, and that's how they spell it]

Sealing wax one bundle

1 Miller's edition of Lineus in 2 Vol

Books, Maps, Charts, Blank Vocabularies, Writing paper

1 Pair large brass money scales with two sets of weights

Arms & Accoutrements15 Rifles

15 Powder Horns & pouches complete

15 Pairs of Bullet Moulds

15 d. of Wipers or Gun worms

15 Ball screws

24 Pipe Tomahawks

24 Large knives

Extra parts of locks & tools for repairing items

15 Gun slings

500 Best flints

200 lbs. Best rifle powder

400 lbs. Lead

Clothing15 3 pt. Blankets

15 Match Coats with Hoods & belts

15 Woolen Overalls

15 Rifle Frocks of waterproof Cloth if possible

30 Pairs of socks or half stockings

20 Fatigue frocks or hunting shirts

30 Shirts of strong linen

30 yds. Common flannel

Camp Equipage6 Copper kettles (1 of 5 gallons, 1 of 3, 2 of 2, & 2 of 1)

35 Falling axes

4 Drawing knives, short & strong

2 Augers of the patent kind

1 Small permanent Vice

1 Hand vice

36 Gimblets assorted

24 Files

12 Chisels

10 Nails

2 Steel plate hand saws

2 Vials of Phosphorous

1 container of phosphorous made of allum & sugar

4 Groce fishing hooks assorted

12 Bunches of drum line

2 Foot adzes

12 Bunches of small cord

2 Pick axes

3 Coils of rope

2 Spades

12 Bunches of small fishing line assorted

1 lb. Turkey or Oil stone

1 Iron mill for grinding corn

20 yds. of oil linen for wrapping & securing articles

10 yds of thicker quality for covering and lining boxes

40 yds of strong cloth to form two half faced Tents or Shelters

4 Tin blowing trumpets

2 Hand or spiral sping Steelyards

20 yds strong Oznaburgs

24 Iron spoons

24 Pint tin cups (without handles)

30 Steels for striking or making fire

100 Flints

2 Frows

6 Saddlers large needles

6 Large awls

Mosquito curtains

2 Patent chamber lamps & wicks

15 Oil cloth bags for securing provision

1 Sea grass hammock

Provisions and Means of Subsistence150 lbs. Portable soup

3 Bushels of allum or rock salt

Spices assorted

6 Kegs of 5 gallons each making 30 gallons of rectified spirits

6 Kegs bound with iron hoops

Native American Presents5 lbs. White Wampum

5 lbs. White glass beads mostly small

20 lbs. Red beads assorted

5 lbs. of Yellow or Orange beads assorted

30 Calico shirts

12 Pieces of East India muslin handkerchiefs sprtiped or check'd with brilliant colors

12 Red silk handkerchiefs

144 Small sheap looking glasses

100 Burning glasses

4 Vials of Phosphorous

288 Steels for striking fire

144 Small cheap scissors

20 Pair large scissors

12 Groce needles assorted. 1 to 8 Common points.

12 Groce assorted with points for sewing leather.

288 Common brass thimbles

10 lbs. Sewing thread assorted

24 Hanks sewing silk

8 lbs. Red lead

2 lbs. Vermillion

288 Knives small such as are generally used for the Indian trade, with fox'd blades & handles inlaid with brass

36 Large knives

36 Pipe tomahawks

12 lbs. Brass wire assorted

12 lbs. Iron wire, generally large

6 Belts of narrow ribbons colours assorted

50 lbs. Spun tobacco

20 Small falling axes to be obtained in Tennessee

40 Fish giggs such as the Indians use with a single barbed point - at Harper's Ferry

3 Groce fishing hooks assorted

3 Groce Mockerson awls assorted

50 lbs. Powder secured in a keg covered with oil cloth

24 Belts of worsted feiret or gartering colours brilliant and assorted

15 Sheets of copper cut into strips of an inch in wideth & a foot long

20 Sheets of tin

12 lbs. Strips of sheet iron 1 inch wide and 1 foot long

1 Piece of red cloth second quality

1 Nest of 8 or 9 small copper kettles

100 Block-tin rings cheap kind ornamented with colored glass or mock-stone

2 Groces of brass curtain rings & sufficiently large for the finger

1 Groce cast iron combs

24 Blankets

12 Arm bands silver

12 Wrist bands

36 Ear trinkets

6 Groce drops of silver

4 dozen rings for fingers

4 Groces broaches of silver

12 Small medals

Means of Transportation1 Keeled boat light strong at least 60 feet in length her burthen equal to 8 tons

1 Iron frame of canoe 40 feet long

1 Large Wooden canoe

12 Spikes for setting poles

4 Boat hooks & points complete

2 Chains and pad-locks for confining the boat & canoes

52 Pirogues (open boats)

Square sail (also called a broad sail)

35 Oars

2 Horses

Medicine15 lbs. of Best powder's bark

10 lbs. Epsom or Glauber Salts

4 oz. Calomel

12 oz. Opium

1.5 oz. Tartar emetic

8 oz. Borax

4 oz. Powdered Ipecacuana

8 oz. Powder Jalap

8 oz. Powdered Rhubarb

6 Best lancets

2 oz. White vitriol

4 oz. Lacteaum Saturni

4 Pewter Penis syringes

1 Flour of Sulphur

3 Clyster pipes

4 oz. Turlingtons Balsam

2 lbs. Yellow Bascilium

2 Sticks of Symple Diachylon

1 lb. Blistering Ointments

2 lbs. Nitre

2 lbs. Coperas

Books, MapsBarton's Elements of Botany

Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz's History of Louisiana

Richard Kirwan's Elements of Mineralogy

A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy

The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris

Afour-volume dictionary

Atwo-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin classification of plants)

Tables for finding longitude and latitude

Map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River