Lewis and Clark at Dark

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Across
  1. 3. Crepuscular (active during twilight hours) animal with a defensive odorous spray.
  2. 4. This flying mammal is awake mostly at night.
  3. 8. Lewis and Clark used the stars to check their latitude and this.
  4. 10. Men of the expedition could, with the captains' permission, spend the night at the villages of the Mandan and this other tribe
  5. 12. This word means that an animal is awake mostly at night.
  6. 13. This bird is awake mostly at night and can turn its head 270 degrees.
  7. 14. This needed to be tended throughout the night or the men of the expedition might have frozen.
Down
  1. 1. One of the only duties the men of the expedition did at night, often taking two hour shifts.
  2. 2. The nights got longer during this season that Lewis and Clark spent at Fort Mandan
  3. 4. Board game played in free time at Fort Mandan.
  4. 5. Name for the Northern Lights. Lewis and Clark saw this celestial phenomena while at Fort Mandan.
  5. 6. Opposite of noon, 12 at night.
  6. 7. These along with rods are in our eyes, allowing us to see. Having more rods gives better dark vision.
  7. 9. Space above the fort rooms that most of the men would have slept in.
  8. 11. Coat made by fur traders out of wool blankets