it's pretty tough, sir. I'd rather take another lickin', sir."
However, in time, John did receive honorable discharge, and was granted the 320 acres of land and the extra pay allowed to the other men.
April 7 was the day for breaking camp. By five o'clock in the afternoon the boats, loaded and manned—the barge for down-river, the six canoes and the two pirogues for up-river—were being held at the bank, waiting only for the captains' orders.
"Ready, barge?" called Captain Lewis.
John Newman gripped the last of the hands extended to him by his former comrades, and clambered aboard. He and five of the Corporal Warfington privates from St. Louis were the guard. The sixth private, Moses B. Reed, was being returned as a prisoner, for he had attempted to desert, with his musket and other government equipment. Corporal Warfington was in command. Trader Gravelines was the pilot. Two French boatmen were the crew. Chief Brave Raven, and two other Arikaras who had accompanied Mr. Gravelines up from the Arikara village, also were aboard. They were going on to Washington to see their great white father.
For President Jefferson were being sent Captain Clark's journal and map, and Captain Lewis's report to this very date. And many hide and wooden boxes of specimens and trophies: two stuffed antelope, a white weasel pelt entire, squirrels that had been brought by
