Prescription Chocolate
Journal 2006 09 14
Prescription Chocolate
“I felt my Self very unwell and derected a little Chocolate which Mr. McClellen gave us, prepared of which I drank about a pint and found great relief” William Clark, September 13, 1806. Good news to all the chocolate lovers. Don’t you know a Hershey bar or Mr. Goodbar will fix just about every ill? Expert outdoorsman and tracker teaches searchers to have a chocolate bar with them when searching for a child. Lost children will hide from rescuers after several days of being lost. A chocolate bar stuffed in the mouth seems to snap the lost child out of their state of shock and back into reality. Just reporting the facts. Please don’t send any studies to the contrary.
This morning the men set out early after only making eighteen miles yesterday because of high winds. All arms are put in order and the men are on high alert. “…this being the part of the Missouri the Kanzas nation resort to at this Season of the year for the purpose of robbing the perogues passing up to other nations above, we have every reason to expect to meet with them, and agreeably to their Common Custom of examining every thing in the perogues and takeing what they want out of them, it is probable they may wish to take those liberties with us, which we are deturmined not to allow of and for the Smallest insult we Shall fire on them.”
Around 2:00PM the Corps meets another party coming upriver to trade with the Yankton Sioux. They too give the men more whiskey! After making “only” fifty-eight miles today the men put to camp near the camp of July 1, 1804. They have a dram of drink and sing “in the greatest harmony” until 11:00PM.
The generosity towards the Corps of Discovery continues. “…all from St. Louis, those young men received us with great friendship and pressed on us Some whisky for our men, Bisquet, Pork and Onions, & part of their Stores, we continued near 2 hours with those boats,…”
“…that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to share, to be generous,…”
(1 Timothy 6:18 MKJV)
What an example of generosity we are witnessing as the men coming to the wilderness meet the men returning. So we see celebration tempered by a state of alertness required by the Kansas Indian Nation and their reputation for robbing travelers.
“I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalms 120:7 MKJV)
Are you for peace? Good. Are you prepared for war? You should be. Prepare for both and then celebrate!
Proceed on.
Prescription Chocolate
“I felt my Self very unwell and derected a little Chocolate which Mr. McClellen gave us, prepared of which I drank about a pint and found great relief” William Clark, September 13, 1806. Good news to all the chocolate lovers. Don’t you know a Hershey bar or Mr. Goodbar will fix just about every ill? Expert outdoorsman and tracker teaches searchers to have a chocolate bar with them when searching for a child. Lost children will hide from rescuers after several days of being lost. A chocolate bar stuffed in the mouth seems to snap the lost child out of their state of shock and back into reality. Just reporting the facts. Please don’t send any studies to the contrary.
This morning the men set out early after only making eighteen miles yesterday because of high winds. All arms are put in order and the men are on high alert. “…this being the part of the Missouri the Kanzas nation resort to at this Season of the year for the purpose of robbing the perogues passing up to other nations above, we have every reason to expect to meet with them, and agreeably to their Common Custom of examining every thing in the perogues and takeing what they want out of them, it is probable they may wish to take those liberties with us, which we are deturmined not to allow of and for the Smallest insult we Shall fire on them.”
Around 2:00PM the Corps meets another party coming upriver to trade with the Yankton Sioux. They too give the men more whiskey! After making “only” fifty-eight miles today the men put to camp near the camp of July 1, 1804. They have a dram of drink and sing “in the greatest harmony” until 11:00PM.
The generosity towards the Corps of Discovery continues. “…all from St. Louis, those young men received us with great friendship and pressed on us Some whisky for our men, Bisquet, Pork and Onions, & part of their Stores, we continued near 2 hours with those boats,…”
“…that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to share, to be generous,…”
(1 Timothy 6:18 MKJV)
What an example of generosity we are witnessing as the men coming to the wilderness meet the men returning. So we see celebration tempered by a state of alertness required by the Kansas Indian Nation and their reputation for robbing travelers.
“I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalms 120:7 MKJV)
Are you for peace? Good. Are you prepared for war? You should be. Prepare for both and then celebrate!
Proceed on.
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