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1.98sAll right! Toilet paper!
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8.16sIn 1804, President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark and some embedded journalists to find the Northwest Passage.
3.37sThey paddled up the Mississippi from St. Louis.
3.75sWhen winter came, Lewis and Clark tried to set up camp,
2.19sbut encountered much hardship.
5.32s(STRAINING) Come spring, they sought help from Native Americans.
2.49sLong have we awaited the coming of the white man...
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1.12sAnd Carl.
2.5sThanks. And welcome to the United States of America.
1sHave a flag.
2.75sAnd while you're at it, cover your nakedness and worship our Lord.
1.3sYeah, yeah. I'll get right on it.
7.12sNow, in order to aid your journey across the land I offer you the guidance of my daughter, Sacagawea.
6.07sIn our language, her name means "little know-it-all "who won't shut her maize hole."
2.07sI will be happy to help the Americans.
2.75sOf course, I will be sad to leave my husband,
1.93sthe French fur trader, Charbonneau.