human
Men, said Meriwether Lewis at length,
gpt
And the confounded ships are all gone back to sea! grumbled Patrick Gass.
human
I've been achin' for days to git here, in the hope of foindin' some sailor man I'd loike to thrash--and here is no one at all, at all!
gpt
Will, said Meriwether Lewis after a time, pulling out the inevitable map,
human
I wonder where it was that Alexander Mackenzie struck the Pacific twelve years ago! It must have been far north of here. We have come around forty-seven degrees of longitude west from Washington, and something like nine degrees north unite with France or Spain on the south to known exploration by land. We have driven the wedge home! Never again can Great Britain on the north unite with France or Spain on the south to threaten our western frontier. If they dispute the title we purchased from Napoleon, they can never deny our claim by right of discovery. This, I say, solidifies our republic! We have done the work given us to do.
gpt
Yes, grinned William Clark, standing on one leg and warming his wet moccasin sole at the fire;