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Show ruts JOURNAL 01-' A VOYAl:I.:: For this purpose you must interest \Vhite Hait·, ol' t!lc Gt·ancl Osage, with whom and a suitable deputation you \\•ill visit the Panis republic, where you may lind intcrpreters, and inform )'OUI'sclf of the most feasible plan, by which to !wing the Camancht:s to a confercncc .-Should you succeed in this attempt (aud no pains must be spared to efl'cct it), you will cndcaYot· to make pence between that distant powerful nation, and the nation<> which inhabit the country between us and them, particularly the Osage; nnd finally you will endeavor to induce eight or len of tbc~r distingui-; hed chief's, to make a visit to the scat of govcmment next Scp· tcmber, and rou tnay attach to this deputation four ot· five Panis, ;md t!lC same number of Kanses chiefs. As you•· interview with the Camanches will probnbly lead you to the head br..tnchcs of the Arkansaw and Red rivers, you may find yourself approximated to the settlements of New Mexico, and there it will be necessary you should move with great circumspection, to keep clear of any hunting 01' reconnoitring parties from that province, and to prevent alarm or offence ; because the a!fairs of Spain and the United States, nppcar to be on the point of amicable adjustment, and moreovcl'it is the desire of the l~resident, to cultivate the friendship and hat·· monious intercourse of all the nations of the earth, and particularly our ncar neigliboms the Spaniards. In the course of your tout·, you. are to remark particularly U)>Ol\ the ~cogrnphical st.ructurc, the natural history and population of the countJ·y through which yon may pass, taking particular care to collect and preserve specimens of every thing curious in the mineral or botanical worlds, which can be preserved and arc portable. Let your courses be regulated by your compass, anti your distances by your watch, to be noted in a field-book, and I would advise you when circumstances permit, to protract and lay down in a separate book the march of the day at every evening's halt. The instruments, which I have furnished you, will enable }'OU to ascertain the variation of the magnetic needle and the latitude with exactitude ; and at every remarkable point, 1 wish you to em· plo~ your te.lescopc in obsening the eclipses of Jupiter's satelites, havmg prevwusly regulated and adjusted your watch by your quad· rant, taking ca1·e to note with gt·cat nicety the periods of immersions and cmersions of the eclipsed satelitcs. These observations may cn<~hlc us afi.ct· your rctmn, by application to the appropriate tables, wluch ~ canuot. now furnish you, to ascertain the Ion~itude. ~t ts ~11 Object of much interest with the executive, to ascertain the cltrccuon, extent, ~nd n~wig<~tion of the A1·k:wsaw nnd Red river; TO TilE SOURCES OF TilE ARKANS:\ vV, &c. 100 as fat·, thcrefo1·c, as may be compatible with these instructions ancl practicable to the means you may command, I wish you to carry your views to those subjects, and should circumstances conspire to fa,·or the enterprise, that you may detach a party with a few Osage to descend the Arkansaw unde1· the Qrdcrs of lieutenant \Vilkinson, 01· sergeant Ballinger, propel'ly instructed and equipped to take the courses and distances, to remark on the soil, timber, &c. &c . and to note the tributary streams. This party will, afte1· reaching- our post on the Arkansaw, descend to fort Adams and the re wait furth e t· orders; and you yourself may descend the Red river accornpaniccl by a party of the most respectable Camanches to the post of Nnchitoches, and there receive further orders. To disburse your necessary expences and to aid your neg·otia" tions, you arc herewith furnished six hundred dollat·s wot·th of goods, for the appropt·iation of which you m·e to rendct· a strict account, vouched by documents to be attested by one of your party. Sln, 'Vishin~ you a safe and successful expedition, I am, sit·, "Vith much respect and esteem, (Signed) Lieutenant Z. ftf. Pike. Your obedient set·vant, JAMEs vvu. KzNso~ -·- ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LIEUTENANT PIKF.. Cantoumeut, Missouri, July 12th, 1 80 6. THE health of the Osages being now generally restored, and all hopes of the speedy recovery of theit· p1·isoners, from the hands of the Potowatomies, being at an end, they have become desirous to commence theil· journey fpr their viJlages, you arc therefore to proceed to-morrow. In addition to the instructions given you on the 24th ultimo, T must request you to have the talks undet· CO\'er delivered to \Vhitc Hair and the Grand Peste, the chief of the Osage band, which .i~ settled on the waters of the Arkansaw, together with the belts whiclt accompany them. You will also receive herewith a small hclt fiJI the Panis and \\ large one for the TctaGs or Camancl1cs. |