Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Is That True?
Archaeologists are looking for traces of mercury in the ground. This is because they took so many rushies pills, and even the sav that they used for treating the men who had syphilis, had so much mercury in it. If archaeologists find a heavy concentration of mercury, they canot this might be one of the latrin areas of the lewis and clark expedition. But there were also some rascals on board: Moses reed was punished with 'the cat of nine tails', which involved being lashed four times by whips.
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