butterbox

The "butterbox babies" scandal was a strange and creepy tale, too, not to mention the saga of the "Duplessis orphans."

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

But without an investigation, we'll never know--just as we would never have known about the butterbox babies and the Duplessis orphans if people had just shrugged the dark tales off, and dismissed it all as fantasy and paranoia.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

I take this to be the same species of duck common to the Ohio, as also the atlantic coast, and sometimes called the butterbox. the back is wide and

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

I take this to be the same speceis of duck common to the Atlantic coast, and frequently called the butterbox. the beak is wide and short, and as well as the legs, of a dark colour. the flesh of this duck is very well flavored, the brown duck is much in form like the duckinmallard, tho 'not much more than half it's size. the colour is an uniform mixture of yellowish and dark brown. there is nothing remarkable in the appearance of this duck; it generally resorts the same kind of grassey marshes with the

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

Cormorant, duckinmallard, butterbox, and common large geese were only to be found the tide being out this morning we found some difficulty in passing through the bay below the Cathlahmah village; this side of the river is very shallow to the distance of 4 miles from the shore tho there is a channel sufficient for canoes near S.side. at 1 P.M. we arrived at the Cathlahmah village where we halted and purchased some wappetoe, a dog for the sick, and a hat for one of the men. on one of the seal Islands opposite to the village of these people thy have scaffolded their dead in canoes elivating them above tidewater mark. these people are very fond of sculpture in wood of which they exhibit a variety of specemines about their houses. the broad peices supporting the center of the roof and those through which the doors are cut, seem to be the peices on which they most display their taist.

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

I take this to be the same speceis of duck common to the Atlantic coast, and frequently called the butterbox. the beak is wide and short, and as well as the legs, of a dark colour. the flesh of this duck is very well flavored. the brown duck is much in form like the duckinmallard, tho not much more than half it's size. the colour is an uniform mixture of yellowish and dark brown. there is nothing remarkable in the appearance of this duck it generally resorts the same kind of grassey marshes with the duckinmallard and feeds in a similar manner, on grass seed, and roots. both these ducks are common to the river for some distance above tide water as well as below.

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