May 14, 1805
Several of your men in the rear canoes discover a large brown bear [grizzly] lying the open ground a short distance from the river banks. Six of your best hunters decide to kill the bear. They manage to get within 40 paces of the bear without being heard. Then, each of them fires at it! Instantly the bear rises up and charges your men. Two of them make it to a canoe; the others hide in the willows. The bear continues to follow two of your men who jump into the river, even though they face a twenty foot drop into the river. The bear is so enraged that he follow the men into the river. Luckily, the two men who remain on shore are able to reload their weapons. They shoot the bear in the head. After your men drag the bear on shore, they discover the bear took eight shots before he was killed. Today’s drama does not stop there!
Back on the river, the pirogues are under sail and cruising along when a sudden squall of wind strikes! Unfortunately, Charbonneau is at the helm of helm of one of the pirogues – the white canoe. He cannot swim, and is very timid waterman. Both co-captains are on shore opposite the pirogue, too far to be heard even if you could yell directions to the out-of-control pirogue.
Instead of turning the rudder into the wind, which is what most good sailors would have known to do, Charbonneau began shouting for God’s mercy. The pirogue fills the water and important articles such as your journals, maps, and instruments begin floating away! Sacagawea and Cruzatte (the bowsman) along with other Corps members on board this pirogue begin to take action, but this is happening very quickly.
Your instinct is to jump in the river and try to save what you can. Should you follow your instinct?
May 14, 1805- Depending on how fast and on how deep the river is but you should still go in and follow your instinct. Because you need this stuff to find where and how to get to your destinations so you won’t get lost. If you didn’t go jump in you would most likely get lost and die and you would have gone for nothing at all. As for the first little dramatic event I don’t think you should have even tried to kill the bear unless you know for certain you would kill it before they all went crazy and jumped into the river which started the problem of having the important materials floating off in the water.
ReplyDeleteBlue Group- Jaret, Jacob, Kalei, and Shania
Yes our group believes that you should follow your instinct because if you didn't follow your instinct instead of leaving them be then you wouldn't be able record anything or or remember it but our group has decided to jump into the river to retreave everything that we can.
ReplyDeleteOur group decided that we should go and save our supplies. we think that we should send a small group of men to find and rescue our supplies. we also think that we should teach the men how to save the boats if that happens again.when that happened Sacajawea almost lost her life by saving the maps, journals, and the medicine that floated away. All of this took place in May of 1805.
ReplyDeleteMay 14, 1805
ReplyDeleteThere was a grizzly bear. They shot the bear but it came after them. A couple men were on the boat, in the water, and hiding on the land. The bear went after a few of them. Some men shot the bear in the head and it died, but it took eight shots to kill it. Then a huge wind came and it blew most of their things into the water, such as maps, journals, and instruments. Your instinct is to jump into the water and try and save what you can. Should you follow your instinct?
Tristan says get the stuff. Amanda says dude go get the stuff. Austin says jump in the river and save the stuff and save the idiot who was yelling. Conagher says yes, get the maps so we know where we are going. I say that we should go in the water and try to save everything that went into the water, but have some sense and not send in someone that doesn’t or barely knows how to swim.
Lewis and Clark decided to go into the water to try and save some things. They were on the land when they decided to go in. Sacagawea was in the sinking boat, she was with her baby, and she was picking things out of the water as they floated by. She was very calm.
Green Group- Halei