Journal Entry
Meriwether Lewis: May 19, 1805
May 19, 1805
one of the party wounded a beaver, and my dog as usual swam in to catch it; the beaver bit him through the hind leg and cut the artery; it was with great difficulty that I could stop the blood; I fear it will yet prove fatal to him.
Source: Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904–05). Public domain.
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