How you can make a journey into the uncharted west and only lose 1 member of your expedition to illness before you even leave is beyond me but the Lewis and Clark expedition manged it. (thelemmy.club)

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

They used local guides, who knew the routes, dangers and resources they might encounter.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

Two good stories.

We know exactly where they stopped because Lewis would dose the men with mercury, and we can detect the latrines where they passed mercury laden stool.

The captains took along enough liquor to get the men drunk until they were too far from civilization to turn back.

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