 Well, Lewis and Clark were not the only two who wrote in the journals. Here is an entry on Christmas 1805 by Joseph Whitehouse. We had no ardent spirit of any kind among us, but are mostly in good health, a blessing, which we esteem more than all the luxuries this life can afford. And the party are all thankful to the Supreme Being for his goodness towards us, hoping he will preserve us in the same and enable us to return to the United States.