the United States. M.Lewis and viljam klark

you are: the United States

The management of expedition has been assigned to captains M.Lewis and William Clark.

' the Purpose of your mission, it-was spoken in the written instruction handed over to it, research of the river Missouri and those its major inflows which in a direction of the current and communications with other waterways having a drain to Pacific ocean, whether it be Colombia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river, can be the shortest and most convenient waterway for trade through all North American continent '-is.

It also had been gave the task carefully to study geography and geology of the passed areas, their economic possibilities and the population, and also to collect a maximum quantity of data concerning the areas laying away from their route. They should find out, whether is the mouth of Colombia the same convenient centre for fur trade as gulf Nutka, and whether it is impossible to deliver skuplennye furs through the North America instead of carrying them round all Southern.