15th.. January Tuesday 1805 Fort Mandan
between 12 & 3 oClock this Morning
we had a total eclips
of the Moon, a part of the observations necessary
for our purpose
in this eclips we got which
is
at 12 h–57 m–54 s Total Darkness of the Moon
at –1 –44 –00 End of total Darkness of The moon
at 2 – 39 – 10 End of the eclips.
This morning not so Cold as yesterday Wind from the
S.E. wind choped around to the N. W. Still temperate four
Considerate
[considerable—Ed.] men of the Menetarre Came
to See us We Smoked in the pipe, many Mands. present
also,
we Showed (attentions) to those men who had
been impressed
with an unfavourable oppinion of us (which satisfied them).
