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1804:
Captain Clark (current)
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Captain Clark:
November 6, 1804
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Last night late we were awakened by the sergeant of the guard to see a northern light, which was light, but not red, and appeared to darken and sometimes nearly obscured, and open. Divided about 20 degrees above horizon - various shapes - considerable space. Many times appeared in light streaks, and at other times a great space light, and containing floating columns, which appeared to approach each other and retreat, leaving the lighter space at no time of the same appearance.
This morning I rose at daylight. The clouds to the north appeared black. At eight o'clock the wind began to blow hard from the N.W., and cold; and continued all day. Mr. Joe Gravelines, our Arikara interpreter, Paul Primaut, La Jeunesse, and two French boys who came with us, set out in a small pirogue, on their return to the Arikara nation and the Illinois. Mr. Gravelines has instructions to take on the Arikaras in the spring, &c. Continue to build the huts out of cotton [wood] timber, this being the only timber we have.
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