How do they rank as explorers and discoverers in American hx , or world hx??
As explorers, as discoverers in, in, in American history, or indeed in world history, I think, and obviously, I’m biased, I think that they rank right at the, at the very, very top. A, a big part of the reason for that ranking is the fact that they were so successful in dealing with field conditions that, that with only the loss of, of Sergeant Floyd, who would have died anywhere in the world, of, of what was probably a ruptured appendix at, at this point in time. They didn’t lose anybody. They managed with, with really great style and grace to pull off this, this 2-year, 4-month journey, and, and live to tell the tale. The second part is the telling of the tale. They were as, as Jim Ronda has said, as Don Jackson has said, as a number of people have said, the writing-est explorers ever. And they returned with, with voluminous amounts of data. They had fulfilled Jefferson’s instructions, which were in themselves, voluminous. And Jefferson had this sort of Humboldtian concept of, of wha