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Show JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE ~' some presents to conduct n1e in ; th.ey agreed, con4 • " Jucted 1ne to their camp where their womrn were, " and in about five minutes we were on our march. That " night we encamped in the woods, ~nd I sle~t very little, " owing to my distrust of n1y compamons. 1 he ~ext day '' at t h ree o ' c 1o c k , p . M · We arrived at the vil.l age of " Aqua Caliente, where I was iinmediately ta~ten mto the '' house of the cmnmandant, and expresses d1spatched to " Santa Fe. That night I was put to sleep on a mat:ass on " the floor. The next day we departed early, leav.1~g my " arms and baggage at the con1mandants, he pr01msm~ to " have them forwarded to me at the city. On our arnv:l " at Santa Fe, the governor received n1e with great auster~· " ty at first, and entered into an examination of my bus;~ " ness and took possession of all my papers. After a " this was explained, he ordered me to a room where the " officers were confined when under an arrest and a non" commissioned officer to attend Inc, when I walked out " into the city, which I had free pern1ission to do. I was " supplied with provisions from the governor's table, who " had promised he would write to Babtiste Lalande to come " down and answer to the claim I had against him ; whose " circumstance I had apprized myself of. The second da~ " the governor sent for me, and infornled me, tha~ he ha " madl e enquiry as to the ab 1'l t' tt.e s o f L a1 a n d c, to discharbg et " the debt, and found that he possessed no property, u " that at some future period, he would secure the money " for tne. To tht·s I rna d c a spt· n·t ecl r cmon strancc ' as an " infringement of our treatt.e s and a protecti·o n °f a' refug.ehe " citizen of the U nt• teu.1 St ates aga·m st 11 1· s c·1 · c , ditor•s ' w. hic " had no other eHect than to obtam· tnc an m· v Jt''t twn toi L . , iliwl~ " dinner, and rather more n'spectful treatment. ' ·I' htly " hitherto received from his excellency, who bcmgs 1g h' · . to , ~, " afllicteJ with the dropsy, requested my adnc' as THROUGH THE INTPTHCHl PROVT 1 C'f.:c; &c. 2~7 ' c case; on which I prescribed a reginw 1 an~l modr- of " treatment which happened to dilf-'r from th0 one adopt" ed by a monk and practising physician of the place, " brought on me his enmity and ill offices. T'hc ensuing tc day I was ordered by the governor to hold mysdf in rea" diness to proceed to the internal parts of the country, to "which I agreed ; determining not to leave the country in "a clandestine manner, unless they attempted to treat n1e "with indignity or hardship ; and conceiving it in my " power to join you on your r etreat, or find Red river "and descend it ; should you not be brought in, but in " that case to share your destiny: added to this I frel a " desire to see more of the country for which purpose I was " willing to run the risk of future consequence~. V\f e " marched the ensuing day, I having been equipped by my "friend, with son1e small articles of which I stood in "need of, such as I would receive out of the numerous "offers of his country. The fourth day I arrived at the ·"village of St. Fernandez, where I was received, and taken "charge of by Lt. Don l•aci<;nuo Malgarcs who command- " ed the expedition to th~ Pawnees, and whom you will " find a gentleman, a soldier and one of the most gallant " men you ever knew ; with him I could no longet· keep " the disguise and when he infonncd me, (two days smce) "that you were on the way in, I confessed to hin1 my be- " 1 • " o.n gm. g to your party, and we have ever since been anti. . Clpatmg the pleasure we three will enjoy, in our journey "to Chihuahua; for he is to command the escort his " d . ' " r~goons _bemg now encamped in the field, waiting your "a.rr~val. Smce I have been with him I have practiced phy- " Sic .J ll. the country in order to have an opportunity of ex-,, ammmg the manners, customs, &c. of the people' and to ,, endd eavor .t o ascertain the political and relibr rious feelinrYb s an to gam ever.y other species of information which |
