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Show 2L6 JOUR)JAL OF A VOYAGE of your escort is now waiting for you, under the command of the officer who commanded the expedition to the Paw. nees. Pike. I would not wish to be impertinent in my observations to your excellency, but pray sir! do you not think it was a greater infringement of our t 'rritory to srnu 600 milas in the Pawnees, than for Inc with our small party to com,... on the frontiers of yours with an intent to descend Red river? Governor. I do not understand you. Pike. No Sir! any further explanation is unnecessary. I then returned to the house of my friend Bartholcmew and wrote my letter to his excellency, which I had not fin. ishcd before we were hurried to dinner. In the morning I had received frmn the governor br the hands of his pri \'ate seer •tary t wcnty one dollars, noti· fying to me that it was the an1ount of the king's allowance for my party to Chihuahua and that it would be charged to me on account of 1ny subsistence ; from this I clearly understood that it was calculated that the expcnccs of the party to Chihuahua would be defrayed by the Um.t c.d States. I also received by the same hands from hiS excellency a shirt and neck cloth, \vith his compliment~, wishing me to accept of tl em " as they were made ~1 " Spain by his sister and never had been worn by any pet· " son·" for which I returned him tny sincere acknowlcdg· rnents'' and it may not be decnu:d irrelevant if I explain. at this period the miserable appearance we mad ' and situatwn we wern in ; with the causrs of it. \V hen 'vc left our interpreter and one man on the J\ rkansaw, we were oblig· ed to carry all our baggage on our backs, conscqurn.tly that which wa' the most useful was preferr d to the fc:v ornamental parts o f. dress we pos~csse d. 'l'l1 e 'a n1IllUDI· tion daimed our fir~t car,..., tools secondary, leather, leg· THROUGH THE INTERIOR PROVI~CES, &c. 217 gins, boots and mockinsons were the next in consid ration . consequently, I left all n1y uniform, clothing, trunks, &c. a; did the men, except what they had on their back · conceiving that which wouiJ secure the: feet and kgs fr 1m the cold, as prcfi •rable to any less indispensable portion of our dress. Thus, when we presented ourselves at Santa Fe ; I was dres8cd in a pair of blue trows,:rs, mockinsons, blanket coat and a c1p made of scarlet cloth, lincc.l with fox skins and my poor fellows in leggings, breech cloths and leather coats and not a hat in the whole party. Thi" appear~ncc was extrcmc:Iy mortifying to us all, especially as sold1ers, and although some of the officers used fi-eq~ ently to. observe to me, that "worth made the man," &c. With a vanety of adages to the s<nne amount. Y ct the first impression made on the ignorant is hard to eradicate; anJ a greater proof cannot be given of the ignoranc of the common people, than their asking if we Jived in houses or camps like the indians, or if we wore hat in our country · those observations arc sufficient to hew the impressioz~ our uncouth appearance made amongst them. h . The d~nncr at ~he governOJ:'s was rather splendid, .avmg a vanety of dishes and wu1es of the southern provmc: s, and when his cxc~..'lJency was a little wanned with the mRuence f' 1 · 1· H . o c 1eenng Iquor, he bccan1e very sociable. e mformed me that there e:xisted a serious dilliculty be-tween the .1 · . commanuant general o1 the internal pro~ vmcrs and the . C ("" I . . marqms .aso ,a vo, who had given pcr- ~18810n to Mr. n llll bar, t 0 CAp I 0 r ~ tltc () ll chat a contrary to c general principles of their rrovernrncnt . and in cons"~ quencc of 1 · ·1 ' - '" a ainst ~ llc.l, the fonncr h~ci made Y''prescntations l the lattc1 to the court oi Madrid. J\ li r dinner IS eJtcclJency . I d 1 • ' Ba 1·t h oI e mew O1ll en: us coacll; captJin 1)'J \.lmansa 11. ' 0 . anl myse cnrc red with 1 im, and he dro\'t' ut 3 mllcs. lie \Va"i drawn b\ si. mules and aucn led bv • ,.i .F p |
