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The interpreter was Toussaint Charbonneau. His wife, Sacagawea, gave birth to a baby boy at Fort Mandan. To ease her pain, Captain Lewis made some medicine from powdered rattlesnake rattles and gave it to Sacagawea during childbirth. No one knows for sure whether it really helped, but her baby, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (nicknamed Pomp by William Clark) was born just a few minutes later, on February 11, 1805.

Did You Know?
On April 7th the keelboat and a small crew of men headed downstream back to St. Louis. The boat carried boxes of hides, Indian artifacts, minerals, pressed plants and cages of live specimens including a prairie dog, four magpies and a prairie grouse. It arrived in St. Louis on May 20 and then was shipped to President Jefferson in Washington. Part of its cargo can be seen at Harvard's Peabody Museum and at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Meanwhile, Lewis and Clark led a crew of 28 men plus Charbonneau, Sacagawea and little baby Pomp westward into territory never before seen by non-Indians.

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