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1. To seek a waterway to the Pacific.

2. To gather information upon the peoples and cultures that lived there and inform them that they had a new master.

3. To gather information about the land, farmland, forests, what plants, and animals.

4. To lay a claim upon the lands in the pacific northwest, and set a boundary with Canada.

5. To determine what presence the French, British and Spanish had in the west.

6. To return and present their findings.

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