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​ **__Items and Equipment__** By: Alex Meyer, Jorden Berendt, Sam Spengler, and Kyle Cutrara

Before the Corps of Discovery embarked on their expedition, the head, Meriwether Lewis, had to prepare and buy the equipment that they would need. He used $2,500 Congress had given him to buy the 2 tons of goods the Corps eventually had. ==media type="file" key="13 To The Pacific.mp3" width="193" height="60" align="right"==

Mathematical Instruments:

 * surveyor’s compass
 * hand compass
 * quadrants
 * telescope
 * thermometers
 * 2 sextants
 * set of plotting instruments
 * chronometer (needed to calculate longitude)

Camp Supplies:

 * 150 yards of cloth to be oiled and sewn into tents and sheets
 * pliers
 * chisels
 * 30 steels for striking to make fire
 * handsaws
 * hatchets
 * whetstones
 * iron corn mill
 * two dozen tablespoons
 * mosquito curtains
 * 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines
 * 12 pounds of soap
 * 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste concocted by boiling down beef, eggs and vegetables)
 * three bushels of salt
 * writing paper, ink and crayons

There were many presents Lewis and Clark gave the Indians to gain their trust. The Indians recieved 12 dozen pocket mirrors. They gave them many sewing needles. About 4,600! And they gave them lots of scissors for sewing and lots of thread with that. Also, they gave them silk ribbons, ivory combs, handkercheifs (in case they started crying of joy from all the gifts!). They gave them lots of cloth to sew with and lots of tobacco since Indians rituals involved tobacco. Aslo, they gave them 288 knives for hunting and kettles and face paint for the Indians since all Indians wear face paint. Finally, they gave them 33 pounds of beads in many colors for their hair and for style.

Clothing:

 * 45 flannel shirts
 * coats
 * frocks
 * shoes
 * woolen pants
 * blankets
 * knapsacks
 * stockings

Arms and Ammunition:

 * 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54 caliber rifles
 * knives
 * 500 rifle flints
 * 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets
 * 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead canisters called powder kegs.
 * 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air, rather than by flint, spark and powder

Medicine and Medical Supplies:

 * 50 dozen Dr. Rush’s patented "Rush’s pills"
 * lancets
 * forceps
 * syringes
 * tourniquets
 * 1,300 doses of physic
 * 1,100 hundred doses of emetic
 * 3,500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer)
 * other drugs for blistering, salivation and increased kidney output

Traveling Library:
__**Here are some of the supplies Lewis and Clark used:**__
 * Barton’s Elements of Botany
 * Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s History of Louisiana
 * Richard Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy
 * A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy
 * The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
 * a four-volume dictionary
 * a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin classification of plants)
 * tables for finding longitude and latitude
 * map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River

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Here are some examples of tools that they used on the expedition A chronometer was used to calculate longitude and latitude. This type of compass, called a surveyor's compass, was mounted on a staff and stuck into the ground. Lewis and Clark would use it to find bearings and tell distance.

__** Works Cited ** [|**http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_equ.html**] __

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