Clark: December 26, 1805
Heavy rain, strong southeast winds, and hard thunder battered the camp through the night and continued all day. Joseph Fields finished building a table and two seats for the captains. The men dried their wet belongings by the fire and worked to clear fleas from their blankets, which had become so infested that Clark had slept little for two nights. Many of the men's powder horns had gotten wet from prolonged exposure to rain, and the hut was filled with bad smoke.
December 26th Thursday 1805 rained and blew hard last night Some hard
Thunder, The rain continued as usial all day and wind blew hard from the
S. E, Joseph Fields finish a Table & 2 Seats for us. we dry our wet
articles and have the blankets fleed, The flees are So troublesom that I
have Slept but little for 2 nights past and we have regularly to kill them
out of our blankets every day for Several pastmaney of the men have
ther Powder wet by the horns being repeetdly wet, hut Smoke verry bad.
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Thursday 26th December 1805 rained and blew with great Violence S E all
the last night, Some hard Claps of Thunder, the rain as usial Continued
all daywe dry our wet articles before the fire, and have our
blankets fleed, great numbers were Caught out of the blankets, those
trouble insects are So abundant that we have to have them killd. out of
our blankets every day or get no Sleep at nightThe powder in maney
of the mens horns are wet from their being so long exposed to the rain
&c.
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December 26th, Thursday 1805. It rained and blew hard last night, with some hard thunder. The rain continued as usual all day, and the wind blew hard from the S.E. Joseph Fields finished a table and two seats for us. We dried our wet articles and had the blankets de-fleaed. The fleas are so troublesome that I have slept but little for the past two nights, and we have regularly had to kill them out of our blankets every day for several past. Many of the men have their powder wet from the horns being repeatedly wet. The hut smokes very badly.
Thursday, 26th December 1805. It rained and blew with great violence from the S.E. all last night, with some hard claps of thunder. The rain, as usual, continued all day. We dried our wet articles before the fire, and had our blankets de-fleaed. Great numbers were caught out of the blankets. Those troublesome insects are so abundant that we have to have them killed out of our blankets every day, or get no sleep at night. The powder in many of the men's horns is wet from their having been so long exposed to the rain, etc.
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