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The only Shulman that comes to mind is the co-author of 'Of Bridles and Burnings: The Punishment of Women', I only remember this because, when the book went to paperback a few years later, the 'Punishment of Women' was removed from the title, in order to precure a more sales-friendly title.

THE TEMPTRESS by Sandra Shulman (Paperback Library 1971) 2007

The Porpus is common on this coast and as far up the river as the water is brackish. the Indians sometimes gig them and always eat the flesh of this fish when they can precure it; to me the flavour is disagreeable. the Skaite is also common to the salt water, I have seen several of them that had perished and were thrown out on the beach by the tide.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

The Ricaras have domesticated this bird in many instances for the purpose of obtaining its plumage. the nativs in every part of the Continent who can precure those feathers attach them to their own hair and the mains and tail of their favorite horses by way of orniment. they also deckerate their own caps or bonnets with those feathers. 1

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

Bratten is now weaker than any of the convalessants, and complains verry much of his back, all of them recovering slowly in consequence of the want of proper diet, which we have it not in our power to precure.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

He had been so often on the very point of getting his liberty, and still the cup was dashed from his lips. that I had promised to set him free, whenever he could precure an able negro as his substitute; although being a good workman, a single negro was by no means an adequate price in exchange.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

It is to precure me two or three hundred paccan nuts from the western country.

Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

They also precure a roabe from the nativs above, which is made of the Skins of a Small animal about the Size of a Cat, which is light and dureable and highly prized by those people - the greater numbers of the men of the Chinnooks have Guns and powder and Ball - The Men are low homely and badly made,

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Snow became So deep in every derection from 6 to 8 feet deep we could not prosue the road there being no grass for our horses we were obliged to return to the quawmash flatts to precure meat to live on as well as grass for our horses - leaveing our baggage on the mountains We precured

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Mountains, and again to proceed as soon as we could precure Such a guide, knowing from the appearance of the snows that if we remained untill it had disolved Sufficiently for us to follow the road that we

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

So untill we could precure an indian to conduct us over the Snowey

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791