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May
3, 1805
"I
walked out a little distance and met with 2 porcupines which were
feeding on the young willow which grow in great abundance on all
the sandbars; this anamal is exceedingly clumsy and not very watchfull.
I approached so near one of them before it perceived me that I touched
it with my espontoon."—
Meriwether Lewis
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