Bring more dog!

A source of amusement while reading through the journeys of Lewis and Clark is their fondness for eating dog. While they are staying on the Pacific coast they overhunt the game and resort to eating what they have handy which is usually horses and dogs. One of the Chinook indians makes fun of them for relishing dog meat and it’s a funny passage from Lewis’ journal.

“While at dinner an indian fellow verry impertinently threw a poor half starved puppy nearly into my plait by way of derision for our eating dogs and laughed very heartily at his own impertinence; I was so provoked at his insolence that I caught the puppy and threw it with great violence at him and struk him in the breast and face, siezed my tomahawk and shewed him by signs if he repeated his insolence I would tommahawk him, the fellow withdrew apparently much mortifyed and I continued my repast on dog without further molestation.” [copied verbatim]