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Vocab Constitute means to be part of a whole. In context, however, it means to yield: the trees constitute timber.

Vocab Constitute means to be part of a whole. In context, however, it means to yield: the trees constitute timber.

Themes A theme in this book is Sacagawea acting not as a guide, but more as someone improving the relationship between explorers and Native Americans. She communicates in her own language, Shoshoni, and acts as a translater. She also shows the Native Americans that they come in peace just by her presence- they all know that a young women and baby would not travel with a war party.

A I am confused. There is a character referred to by Lewis as Charbono, but Clark calls him Chabonah. Lewis also calls him Sharbono and Shabona. Are they all the same person? Do they just not know how to spell his name? I thought the character was actually named Toussaint Charbonneau.

This is a bird that Lewis killed and described in the portion of the book that I read. Image from https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/....

V A pirogue is a long narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk. This makes sense in context, because one of the pirogues almost tips over. Several people and many instruments and papers were on this boat, because it was believed to be the least likely to tip over, so apparently a large canoe was the best Lewis and Clark had.

F An amazing fact I learned in this book so far is that Sacagawea, who is commonly believed to have been Lewis and Clark's guide, was actually just along for the ride. Her husband joined as an interpreter, and she wanted to come along as well.