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Show JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE their provision and giving it to 1ny n1en, covering them with their blankets, &c. After writing orders to 1ny sergeant, and leaving them with 1ny corporal and one private, who was toreInain, we sallied forth, n1ounted our horses, anJ went up the river about 12 miles, to a place where the Spanish oflicers had n1ade a camp deposit, from whence we sent down 1nules for our baggage, &c. Z. M. PIKE, Captain, 1st United States Battalion Infantry. Wasbington City, January, 1808. Pll{ E'S EXPEDITION. PART III. DIARY OF A TOUR, MADE THROUGH THE INTERIOR PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN, IN THE YEAR 1807, 13Y CAPTAIN z. M. PlKE, OF THE ARMY OF TIIE UNITED STATES, \Vll.EN UNDER AN ESCORT OF SPANISH ·DRAGOONS. 27th February, Friday.- In the n1orning I discoverc> d the Spanish lieutenant, was writing letters addressed to the governor anq others ; on which I demanded if he was not going on with me to Santa Fe. lie appeared confused and said no: that his orders were so posilive as to the safe conduct and protection of my men, that he dare not go and leave any behind; that his companion would accompany me to Santa Fe with 50 men, whilst he with the others would wait for the sergeant and his party. I replied that he had c..lcceived n1e and had not acted with candor; but that it was now too late for n1e to remedy the evil. We marched about 11 o'clock, ascending the Rio del Norte, five n1ilel:> rnore S. 60° W. when we went round through a chain of hills and bore off to the south. We proceeded on nine nulcs further, when we crossed the |
