Frank Meriwether was hardly behind the parson in this fancy, and took, for a short time, to abstruse reading.

弗兰克·梅瑞维特很少落在教区长的后面，有一段时间甚至痴迷于阅读深奥难懂的东西。

He chose Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition team.

他选择梅里韦瑟·刘易斯带领探险队。

Between 1805, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark first traversed the continent, and the 1860s, the buffalo's numbers fell from probably 30m-60m to fewer than 15m.

从 1805 年梅里韦瑟·刘易斯 (Meriwether Lewis) 和威廉·克拉克 (William Clark) 首次穿越非洲大陆到 1860 年代，水牛的数量从大约 30m-60m 下降到不到 15m。