Personal Narrative: Finding New Species Of Animals
Last night, was a terrible night. I couldn’t sleep at all. It was really hot and really buggy. The mosquitos were so terrible, I couldn’t even sleep! Hopefully tonight I can get some sleep. Today we woke up at sunrise and packed everything up and now we’re traveling northwest. I hope we find some new species of animals to send to Thomas Jefferson. It is so fascinating to find new species of animals every day. Yesterday we found the Horned Toad, and Lewis found it to be quite interesting so he kept playing with it, and it bite him right on the finger. It was actually hilarious if I do say so myself. Lewis didn’t find it funny at all and he said if we ever brought it up again, then there would be some punishment. So I’m just going to keep my
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mouth shut. It is about twelve o’clock and we’re traveling on the Great Plains. It is quite beautiful, but quiet strange because we’ve just been seeing trees for the first part of the journey and know we’re just seeing the blue sky and grasslands. It doesn’t bother me; at least there aren’t that many mosquitos. But right now we’re setting up camp for the night and Sergeant Charles Floyd keeps saying that he keeps seeing these big brown things out in the distance. But no one else sees them, and everyone keeps saying that he’s just seeing things because he has barely slept at night. But I think that he is seeing something out there. I guess we’ll find out in the morning what they are. But right now I am going to go to sleep.
We set out early this morning, we packed everything up. We started to leave the Great Plains, and as we were walking up a big hill Lewis just stopped at the top and we were all curious why he had stopped. So we all ran up the hill and then we saw it. We all saw the big brown things that Sergeant Charles Floyd had seen last night, the American Bison.
Lewis said that he had never seen so many buffalo in one place at once, and he also said that there were easily 3,000 of them. It was amazing. Unfortunately, we had to keep moving. As we were walking in the distance we kept seeing the tall grass moving, some of the younger men were scared because we didn’t know what was out there. As we came up to the woods we knew what we kept seeing, the Indians. This group is called the Arikaras. They guarded their territory fiercely against anyone who passed through, whether foreign or Indian. We had to trade some of our supplies so that we could continue our journey without any trouble. Lewis and Clark decided to give them some hats and coats that we had brought along. The little boys loved them right away and they were satisfied with the goods that we had given them so they brought us to their village as a thank you. York played with the children, and told them stories that he was a wild creature who had been captured and tamed by Captain Clark. The adults were so astonished by his presence that they believed he had special spiritual power because of this and his impressive size, so they nicknamed him Big Medicine. It was quite interesting to see that the people were so interested with York’s stories that we
just sat there for about two hours and listened to them. While Lewis and Clark were speaking with the Chief about Thomas’ plan, the Arikara agreed to dispatch a representative to visit Thomas Jefferson. Lewis also encouraged them to make peace with their chief enemies and the tribal chiefs agreed to Lewis’ suggestions. After we were all done we had to say our goodbyes and leave their village. York had some tears in his eyes because he got so attached to the children so easily, and we reminded him that on our way back we might see them again. I really hoped that we would. Anyway, as we were walking through the woods nuts kept hitting our heads. We all kept blaming each other for it, but then Sergeant Charles Floyd said that he saw little creatures climbing around in the trees throwing them at us. I guess those little creatures didn’t like us going through their territory either. Next, we set up camp and Lewis sent us out to go find some food. George Drouillard killed a very fat buck and then Jo Fields returned and killed 3 deer and lost the horse he had taken. After we all got back, several men went out to find the horse that was lost, but came back with no success. George kept saying that the Indians took it, the Indians took it. Clark said that it was a possibility but we would never know. So after all the things that happened today, we made a fire, cooked our food, then we all wrote in our journals and now we set up camp to get some rest for tomorrow’s journey.
mouth shut. It is about twelve o’clock and we’re traveling on the Great Plains. It is quite beautiful, but quiet strange because we’ve just been seeing trees for the first part of the journey and know we’re just seeing the blue sky and grasslands. It doesn’t bother me; at least there aren’t that many mosquitos. But right now we’re setting up camp for the night and Sergeant Charles Floyd keeps saying that he keeps seeing these big brown things out in the distance. But no one else sees them, and everyone keeps saying that he’s just seeing things because he has barely slept at night. But I think that he is seeing something out there. I guess we’ll find out in the morning what they are. But right now I am going to go to sleep.
We set out early this morning, we packed everything up. We started to leave the Great Plains, and as we were walking up a big hill Lewis just stopped at the top and we were all curious why he had stopped. So we all ran up the hill and then we saw it. We all saw the big brown things that Sergeant Charles Floyd had seen last night, the American Bison.
Lewis said that he had never seen so many buffalo in one place at once, and he also said that there were easily 3,000 of them. It was amazing. Unfortunately, we had to keep moving. As we were walking in the distance we kept seeing the tall grass moving, some of the younger men were scared because we didn’t know what was out there. As we came up to the woods we knew what we kept seeing, the Indians. This group is called the Arikaras. They guarded their territory fiercely against anyone who passed through, whether foreign or Indian. We had to trade some of our supplies so that we could continue our journey without any trouble. Lewis and Clark decided to give them some hats and coats that we had brought along. The little boys loved them right away and they were satisfied with the goods that we had given them so they brought us to their village as a thank you. York played with the children, and told them stories that he was a wild creature who had been captured and tamed by Captain Clark. The adults were so astonished by his presence that they believed he had special spiritual power because of this and his impressive size, so they nicknamed him Big Medicine. It was quite interesting to see that the people were so interested with York’s stories that we
just sat there for about two hours and listened to them. While Lewis and Clark were speaking with the Chief about Thomas’ plan, the Arikara agreed to dispatch a representative to visit Thomas Jefferson. Lewis also encouraged them to make peace with their chief enemies and the tribal chiefs agreed to Lewis’ suggestions. After we were all done we had to say our goodbyes and leave their village. York had some tears in his eyes because he got so attached to the children so easily, and we reminded him that on our way back we might see them again. I really hoped that we would. Anyway, as we were walking through the woods nuts kept hitting our heads. We all kept blaming each other for it, but then Sergeant Charles Floyd said that he saw little creatures climbing around in the trees throwing them at us. I guess those little creatures didn’t like us going through their territory either. Next, we set up camp and Lewis sent us out to go find some food. George Drouillard killed a very fat buck and then Jo Fields returned and killed 3 deer and lost the horse he had taken. After we all got back, several men went out to find the horse that was lost, but came back with no success. George kept saying that the Indians took it, the Indians took it. Clark said that it was a possibility but we would never know. So after all the things that happened today, we made a fire, cooked our food, then we all wrote in our journals and now we set up camp to get some rest for tomorrow’s journey.