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Clark's September 3rd journal entry reports an important loss for
record keeping: "we met with a great misfortune, in haveing our
last Thmometer broken by accident." A perusal of journal entries
tells the reader how important temperature readings and weather descriptions
were to the Captains' record keeping. Rain and snow pelted the Corps
at their evening meal and bivouac. The meal wasn't much according
to Patrick Gass; it "was composed of a small portion of flour...and
the last of our pork, which was but a trifle." They slept in
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