Meriwether Lewis: living under Islam is the worst thing in the world

One hundred ninety nine years ago this week, on September 23, 1806, Lewis and Clark and their men arrived back in St. Louis, which they had left two years five months earlier. A little over a year prior to the end of their journey, in July 1805, the Corps of Discovery were heading west in Montana, looking for Shoshone Indians from whom to buy horses in order to get over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. As told in a Montana travel book, “With growing fatigue, the men struggled to pull the boats over rapids. Not only was the river forbidding, Lewis also noted that, “’our trio of pests still invade and obstruct us on all occasions, these are the musquetoes eye knats and prickly pear, equal to any three curses that ever poor Egypt laiboured under, except the Mahometan Yoke.’”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 18, 2005 11:36 AM | Send