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Show 464 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY preparations might be made, and to which the remainder of his 7 P+. <: os ol ” et ae cae . * Hh st St; ee eR Seen wees eitree 2, Le, ak c rery mSehley es i command, some of them having been left behind, might be brought as soon as possible. Pike’s instructions were to be very cautious as he approached the Spanish frontier. As before stated, he must have had some sort of instructions not appearing in the record, for it is peculiar that when he built his fort he built it on the Spanish side of Red river. Accompanying Pike was Dr. J. H. Robinson,*®? who had in his possession a bill against a man named Baptiste La Lande,*® given him by William Morrison, a merchant of Kaskaskia, Illinois, for collection. Pike was desirous of extending his explorations into Spanish territory, or at least to learn the geographic situation of his fort, so far as the capital of New Mexico was concerned. So, under the pretext of collecting this account, in the dead of winter, Pike despatched Dr. Robinson for Santa Fé, the doctor leaving the fort on the 7th day of February. All of the actions of Pike after reaching the San Luis valley are mysterious. It may or it may not be true that Pike believed he was on the Red river. There were Spunish prior to his departure on this expedition, ev Rey? t a ek eata < et | . oI on eh TT or ee as ne (ae — Sete _*. tions of the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, and the Red river, but Pike may still have been ignorant of the fact that he was on the Rio Grande. When Dr. Robinson left the fort he started to the west ri. to him, reek | ge’ available which show with comparative accuracy the relative courses and posi- a maps water into it; the earth taken out being thrown against the work, formed an excellent rampart against small arms, three or four feet high. Our mode of getting in was to crawl over the ditch on a plank, and into a small hole sunk below the level of the work near the river for that purpose. Our port-holes we pers about eight feet from the ground, and a platform prepared to shoot rom. 492 The command consisted of Capt. Z. M. Pike, Dr. John H. Robinson, Serg. William E. Meek, Corporal Jeremiah Jackson, privates Henry Kennerman, John Brown, Jacob Carter, Thomas Dougherty, William Gorden, Theodore Miller, Hugh Menaugh, Jacob Mountjoy, Alex. Roy, John Sparks, Patrick Smith, Freegift Stout, and Baroney Vasquez, as interpreter. Meek, Jackson, Carter, Dougherty, Miller, Sparks, Smith, and Vasquez wort left on the Arkansas, and were not at the stockade at the time Pike and his companions delivered themselves into the hands of the Spanish officers, Salteo and Fernandez. 498 In 1804 William Morrison of Kaskaskia, sent La Lande, a creole trader, up the Platte, instructing him to carry his goods to Santa Fé, with a view La test the commercial prospects in that direction. Obeying his instructions, Lande succeeded in being arrested by the Spaniards and carried to the aoe t The New Mexicans liked the goods, and Baptiste liked the country 80 well yi he determined to settle there, and even forgot to account to Morrison for consignment. Pike met La Lande at Santa Fé. <-. 3. _ 4 forte, Viceroys of New Spain, : 1794-1803 Don Don Don Bernardo de Galvés. Felix Berenguer de Marquina, 1800 Miguel Jose de Azanza, 1798-1800. Don Miguel 1794-1798, de la Grua Talamanca y 1803. Branciforte, Marqués de Branci- |
