Question

What did Meriwether Lewis mean when he wrote he had an "inclination" to eat veal.?

" I felt an inclination to eat some veal and
walked on shore and killed a very fine buffaloe calf and a large woolf, much
the whitest I had seen, it was quite as white as the wool of the common sheep."


He did not like eating veal

He had never eaten veal before.

He wanted to eat veal

He had eaten too much veal.

Answer 1

I believe it’s that he wanted to eat veal.

The context clue here is the word ‘inclination’, which is basically a human urge that can be acted upon. By using this context clue, we can assume that he wanted to eat veal.

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