OCR Text |
Show 68 APPENDIX TO PART Ill. vVilliam GOI·den, Solomon Huddleston, John '1ountjoy, Theodore Miller, Peter Braaden, David Owing11, David vVhelply. This party left St. Louis the 9th of August, 1805, but had been detached for that duty from the I st of July. They returned the 30t Il 0 f A pt·l·1 , 1806 '· from which time until the 15th July• , I was preparing for the second expedition. to the westward, whtch consisted of the following persons : to w1t, Captain Lieut. Doctor Serj'ts C01·poral Z. M. PIKE, JAMES ll. WILKINSON/ JOHN II. ROlliNSON, S JOSEPH BALLENGER,* l WILLIAM E. MEEK,t JEREMIAH JACKSON,t PltiVA.TES. John Boley,• Henry Kennerman, Samuel Bt·adley, • Theodore Miller,t Hugh Menaugh, John Mountjoy,t John Brown, Jacob Carter, t Thomas Dougherty,t Alexander Roy, John Sparks,t Patrick Smith,t William Gorden, Freegift Stoute, Solomon Huddleston,• John Wilson,• Interpreter, BARONEY VASQUEZ. t • Those thus marked descended the Arkansaw r1· ver, •a nd ar-rived at New Orleans some time about the of February, 1807· t Those thus marked are still detained in New Spain. The balance arrived at the Nachitoches, on or about the l~t of July, 1807. But it may probably be better to leave the whole tune undefined, to be regulO\ted by the honorable secretary of w~r. z. 1\tl. PIKE, maJOf APPENDIX TO PART III. 69 [No. 7. ] THE father being informed that I had some astJ·onomical instruments with me, expressed a desire to see them : all that I had here was my sextant and a large glass which magnified considerably, calculated for the day or night, the remainder of my instruments being with my serjeant and purtv. On examining the sextant and shewing him the effect of it in the reflection of the sunhe appeared more surprised, as well as hundreds who surrounded us, at the effect of the instrument, than any nation of savages I was ever among, and here an idea struck me as extraordinary, how a man who appeared to be perfect master of the antient languag·cs, a botanist, mineralogist, and chemist, should be ::;o ignorant of the powet·s of reflection and the fi1·st pr·inciples of mathematics; but my friend explained that enigma, by informing me of the care the Spanish government took to prevent any branch of science from being made a pursuit, which would have a tendency to extend the views of the subjects of the provinces to the geog1·aphy of their country, or any other subject which would bring to view a compal'ison of their local advantages and situations with other countries. -- [ No. 8. J LETTER TO GOVERNOR ALLENeASTEit. Sm, Santa .Fe, 3d Mm·c!t, lSOi. ON the arrival of your troops at my encampment, last month, under the command of lieutenant Don Ignacio Saltelo and Mt·. Bartholemew ; they informed me, that your excellency had direcled them to assure me, that I should be escorted through your dominions to the source of Red river, as our being on the frontie1·s of your p1·ovince gave cause to suspicion. I conceived it more proper to comply with the request, and repair to Santa Fe, in order to explain to yom· excellency any circumstance which mi ght appear extraordinary, but on my anival here, I am informed by your excellency, that it is necessary, that myself ancl troops pass by Chihualtua in the province of Biscay, mot·e than two hundred learruc~ otll ofnn· |