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Transportation 55-foot Keelboat, square sail, 35 oars, 2 horses Camping Equipment 150 Yards of cloth to be made into tents, 6 Large needles, Pliers, Chisels, Handsaws Oilskin bags, 25 Hatchets, Whetstones, 30 Steels for striking or making fire, corn mill 2 Dozen tablespoons, Mosquito curtains, 10.5 lbs of fishing hooks and lines, 193 lbs of soup, 3 Bushels of salt, paper, ink and crayons Clothing 45 Flannel shirts, 20 Coats, 15 Frocks Shoes, Woolen pants, 15 Blankets, Backpacks, 30 pairs of socks, 15 Pairs wool pants Medicine 50 Dozen Dr. Rush's patented Rush's Thunder clapper pills, Lancets Forceps Syringes Tourniquets, 1,300 Doses of physic, 1,100 Doses of emetic, 3,500 Doses of diaphoretic. Weapons 15 Prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54-caliber rifles, Kentucky Rifles, 15 Gun slings, 24 Large knives, Powder horns, 500 Rifle flints, 420 lbs of sheet lead for bullets, 176 lbs of gunpowder, 1 Long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air. Mathematical Tools Hand compass, 1 Hadley's quadrant, 1 Telescope, 3 Thermometers, 2 Sextants, 1 Chronometer, 1 Portable microscope, 1 Tape measure Gifts for Indians 12 Dozen pocket mirrors, 4,600 Sewing needles, 144 Small scissors, 10 lbs of sewing thread, Silk, ribbons, Ivory combs, Handkerchiefs, Several Yards of bright-colored cloth, 130 Rolls of tobacco, Tomahawks that Could be used as pipes, 288 Knives, 8 Brass kettles, Vermilion face paint, 20 lbs of various beads, mostly blue, 5 lbs of small white, glass beads, 288 Brass thimbles, Armbands, and Ear trinkets Books, Charts, and Maps A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy, Antoine Simon's Le Page du Pratz's History of Louisiana Barton's, Elements of Botany Dictionary Linnaeus the Latin classification of plants Richard Kirwan's Elements of Mineralogy The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris Tables for finding longitude and latitude Map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River
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