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"Last evening we had been nearly deafened by the noise of the cicadariae, and but for our large fires should have been kept awake all night by the mosquitoes." The explorers' worries about dwindling water supplies eased the next day when, "in the excitement of exploring fine, well-watered country, [we] forgot all about the eclipse of the sun until the reduced temperature and peculiarly gloomy appearance of the sky drew our attention to the matter".