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“The man considers himself degraded if he is compelled to walk any distance,” Lewis noted. He did not add that in this they were very like Virginia gentlemen. The literal translation of Cameahwait, as best Lewis could make it out, was “One Who Never Walks.”
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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