"We saw one of the largest collection of the burrowing or barking squirrels that we had ever yet seen; we passed a skirt of the territory of this community for about 7 miles...as we had not killed or eat anything today we each killed a burrowing squirrel as we passed them in order to make shure of our suppers..."
I think what this quote is meaning is that Lewis and Clark along with the rest of the explorers were just killing the animals they needed in order to survive, or until they could find something else to eat. They had to go long walks and their journey was really long and sometimes they weren't that lucky and they had to starve themselves because there just wasn't anything to eat and they had to go days without eating. But when they would find animals so they could kill them, they would only kill what they needed to fullfill their hunger.
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