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Souvenir promit him to Stay a few weeks with his wife, he wishes to Stay there altogether and hire himself which I have refused. He prefers being Sold to retun[ing] here, .. .if any attempt is made by york to run off, or refuse to provorm his duty as a slave, I wish him sent to New Orleans and Sold, or hired out to Some Severe master until he thinks better of Such Conduct. - William Clark, in a letter to his brother Jonathan, Nov. 9,1808 Massa Clark sent his brother several boxes filled with pelts, horns, moccasins an other Indian goods received in trade back home, on the keelboat, from the Mandans. I sent my wife a buffalo robe to put her in mind a me when winter come again. I been carrying some gifts a Indian corn, a seashell from the ochian, a grizzly bear tooth, an some rocks rubbed smooth by the M'soura in the medicine bag I keeps 'round my neck. Though it been three long winters since I seen her smile, Massa be so set in his old ways I fear that next time I sets my eyes on her might be my last. ...

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