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Show J i l) JOUH~AL OF A VOYAGE. n1y n1en to release him, and told him, that I looked upon him as too contemptible for further notice, but that he 1night tell the governor, the next time he ~mployed emissaries, to choose those of more abilities and sense, and that I questioned if his excellency would find the sifting of us an easy task. This 1nan's name was Baptiste Lalande, he had come fron1 the Illinois to the Pawnees, to trade with goods furnished him by William 1\iorrison, a gentleman of the Illinois, and from thence to New Mexico with the goods, · which he had procured and established himself, and was the san1e man on whom Robinson had a claim. He re· turned into the priest's house with me, and instead of making any complaint, he in rPply to their enquiries of who I was, &c. informed then1, that when he left Louisiana, I was governor of the Illinois. This I presume he took for granted frmn my having comn1anded for some time the post of Kaskaskias, the first military post the United States had established in that country since the peace; however the report sC'rved hut to add to the respect with which my companion and host treated me. Having had at this place the first good meal, wine, &c. with the heat of the house, and perhaps rather an imn1oJerate usc of the refreshments allowed n1e, produced an attack of some· thing like the cholera morbus, which alarmed me con· siderably, and made me determine to be n1ore abstemious in future. This father was a great naturalist, or rather florist : he had large collections of flowers, plants, &c. and several works on his favorite studies, the margin and bottonls of which \Yere filled with his notes in the Cas· tilian language. As I had neither a natural turn for bo· tany, sufficient to induce 1ne to puzzle my head 1nuch with the Latin, and did not understand the Castilian, 1 rnjnrcd but little of his lectures, which he continued to . THHOUGH THE INTEHJOR Pl"')\ OVINCE~ S, &.c. 2 I 1 giVe me nearly for two hours 1 h . on t 1ose subi t b t e. exercise of a small deg ree of pati.e nce JIe c s,. 1u t by qwred the esteem of this wo rt h ' 1.c:a t l1 er h ' ll' entire y ac. son, and lamenting extrcm I h ' e ca mg me his me one of the holy cathol· e yh t at nly fate had not nladc IC c urch • St. John's was enclosed . h . bably contained I 000 s 1 ~It a tnud wall, ancl pro- ou s . Its 1 . cipally of civilized Ind. ' . popu atiOn consisted prin-of New Mexico the 'vhia.ns, as u~dee~ docs all the villages ' ltes not 10rmz h part of the inhabitants. ng t e one twentieth Sd March, Tuesday W B. Lalande accompan . .- e m_arched after breakfast · ymg us, and rn ab t · · ' to a village where I ou SIX nulcs came , suppose thnre souls. Here we halt 'd h ~ were more than 2000 d , e at t e house of 1 . un erstanding that I would not . . t 1e pncst, who present it to me. kiss his hand, woulJ not T. h e conduct and behaviour of a . carne m, was sucll . young pnest who 1 as JU our countr ld h p y sufficient forever t h . y wou ave been am-rica] asso . . ~ ave bamshcd him from th I Ciat10n struttm b . e c c-cane in his hand h. g. a out Wlth a dirk in his boot a ther under the ' h~ Ispenng to one girl, chucking a;o· F c m and go· . - trom this viii ' mg out with a third &c age to anothe 11 · ' • tants, is seven miles At r ~ma village of 500 inhabi-stream, sufficient fo~ t1 eac 1 of those villages is a small At the father's h 1C purpose of watering their fields it ouse we took coffee F . . . was 17 miles to another of 4 . : . rom this village, we changed h 00 CIVIhzed Indians II h . orscs and prepa d 1: • ere w Ich we came . . ·I . re l Or enkring the capital al Ul sJg It of In the . ' ong the banks of a small . e~enmg. It is situated the mountains and Cleek, wluch comes down fl-om le ~gt h ' runs west to th R. d I of the capital on th 1 e 10 e Norte. The mil c; I·t 1. s but three ·t e c.r ee <. ma Y be esti· mated at one s r ets Ill Width. • ~. e"" ...' \pp en d.J X to Par t lJ r ( N J • 1 0 • 7· page 69. |
