Worm, Squars and Spelling
Journal 2004 12 22
Worm, Squars and Spelling
“Worm”, as spelled by Lewis. Warm as spelled by us. The captains were considered learned men and Lewis spent several years as the student of professors and President Jefferson’s secretary and protégé. As you read the unedited journals it becomes clear that in the 19th century educated men fell short in spelling and grammar. They were able to communicate and they were indeed smart, brilliant in many ways. The tools available to each of us are really quite extraordinary when placed in context and compared to the history of man. Are we using all that we’ve been given?
Oh yes, and it was warm by comparison, 37 degrees.
Now for a piece of information I had not read before. Women had become frequent traders of corn and other plant foods the men needed to round out their fare. Evidently there was a group of Mandan men who after some form of vision dressed and lived as women and were accepted in this mode by the tribe. Don’t know anymore about it at this point.
One of the Mandan women, or “squars” as the journals record them brought a small set of rams horns from what we now call mountain sheep. It was a new species to the men from the Atlantic seaboard and they “procured” the “animale” sample for the biologists back home.
Worm, Squars and Spelling
“Worm”, as spelled by Lewis. Warm as spelled by us. The captains were considered learned men and Lewis spent several years as the student of professors and President Jefferson’s secretary and protégé. As you read the unedited journals it becomes clear that in the 19th century educated men fell short in spelling and grammar. They were able to communicate and they were indeed smart, brilliant in many ways. The tools available to each of us are really quite extraordinary when placed in context and compared to the history of man. Are we using all that we’ve been given?
Oh yes, and it was warm by comparison, 37 degrees.
Now for a piece of information I had not read before. Women had become frequent traders of corn and other plant foods the men needed to round out their fare. Evidently there was a group of Mandan men who after some form of vision dressed and lived as women and were accepted in this mode by the tribe. Don’t know anymore about it at this point.
One of the Mandan women, or “squars” as the journals record them brought a small set of rams horns from what we now call mountain sheep. It was a new species to the men from the Atlantic seaboard and they “procured” the “animale” sample for the biologists back home.
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