History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I.
HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF _CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK,_ TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
THE EARL'S VICTIMS.
CHAPTER I.
THE STEWARD.
Earl de Montford sat in a plainly furnished room in his stately mansion.
Gorgeously decorated as were the other apartments of his princely
residence, this apartment, with its plain business-look--its hard
benches for such of the tenantry as came to him or his agent on
business--its walls garnished with abstracts of the Game and Poor Law
Enactments--its worn old chairs and heavy oak presses, the open doors of
some of which disclosed bundles of old papers, parchments, etc.--this
little room, the only one almost ever seen by any save the aristocracy
HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF _CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK,_ TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.