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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 …show more content…
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
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