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Show APPENDIX TO P.c\RT 11. sail of the line with Jerome Bonaparte at l\Iartiniquc. l consider them lost. Your children have you. She appears well. God protect you. been indisposed ; but 1\lhs. Pike writes My regards to your associates, and may (Signeu) U cutcnant 11ikc. -·- [ No. 10. J J. \V lLKINSON. Camjz IndrjLcndcnce, ncar the Osngc To'liJ11s, August 28, 1806. DF.Ail GENERAL, You will no doubt be much surprised to perceive by the date of this lctter1 that we are still here ; but we have been unavoidably detained by a variety or circumstances. I had the happiness to receive yom express the day of my ar· rival, the bearer having <Xnived the night before, and have attended particularly to its contents. On the I 9th inst. I delivered yuur fiurule tu the Chcveux Blanche, and on the 2 I st held a grand counc1l of both towns, and made the necessary communications and demands fot' hot·ses, on the ~mbjcct of making peace with the Kans, accompanying me to the Pauis, down the Arl~ansaw, and if there was any bra'Vc enough to ac~ company me the whole voyage. They requested one day to hold council in the villages prcviou~ to !{iving- an uuswer. It was three before 1 received any; their detel'mination wls as follows :-From the Grand Osage village, Ot' the Chcveux l3lanche we arc accompanied by his son, and Jean La Fou, the second chief of the village, with some young men not known, and he furnishes us four horses. The Little Osage sends the brother of the chief (whom I rc~tlly find to be the third chief of the villa~;e) and some young men un~ known, and furnishes si.r horses! ! This is their present promise, but four of the ten are yet deficient. \V ith these I am merely capa~ ble of transporting our merchandise anti ammunition.. I shall pUt'· chase two more, for which I find we shall be obliged to pay extra· vagant prices. I sincerely believe that the two chiefs, W/zite .Flair and Tlzt f Vind, have exertecl all their influence ; but it must be but littlt APPENDIX TO PART II. -1 1 when they could only procure ten horses out of seven or eight hunch: ed. I have taken an exact survey of the rive1· to this place, notin R" particular streams, &c. a protracted copy of which lieutenant \Vil kinson forwards by this opportunity. Since our arr!val here I have ascertained the variation of the compass to be 6° 30' E. the latitude, by means of several observations, 37° 26' 17" N. and by an obscrvu· tion of three different nig·hts, obtained two immersions of Jupiter's ~a~c.llitcs, which will enable us to ascertain evet·y geographical object lll VlCW. On the same ni~ht I arrived ncar the village, there was a Mr. llaptist Duchouquette, alias Larme, with two men, in a small canoe atTivcd and went immediately to the lodge of the vVhite Hair, whose conduct, with that of our resident interpreter, appears (in my estimation) to have changed !:iince I sent lieuteuunt \Vil kinson to demand to see Baptist's passport, if he had one : if not, to bring him to camp-which was done. 1 detained him two day::;, until I had made an enquiry of \l\1 bite Hair, who said he had merely mentioned him that Lubardie wa~ coming with a quantity oi goods. l~inding I could substanti.tte n othin~ more criminal against him than his having c11tcred the lndian boundaries without a pasc;port, and not being able to send him back a prisoner, detained him sufficient time to alal'll him, and then touk his deposition (a copy or which is inclosed to the attomey-g-encral), and wrote Dr. Brown on the occasion, and requested him to enter a prosecution against these men. llarroney informs me that he has not the least doubt but--was at the bottom of this embassy, althouRh in the narnc of--as after· the arrival of Baptist, the Indians fl'cquently spoke of - - and dcclat·ed, if he had come he could have obtained horses plenty. Our interpreter, also (Maugrainc ), I do believe to be a perfect creatur•e of : he has almost positively rclttsecl to accompany me (althoug-h I read your order on the su bject), allcdg-iu ~· he was only engaged to intcr·pret at this place, notwithstanding he went last year to the Arkansaw for Mr. Chouteau without difliculty. I have not yet determined on the line of conduct to be pursued with him, but believe, on his giving a po~itivc 1·efusa.l, I shall usc milital'y Jaw. \Vhat the t·esult will be is uncertain; but to be thus br·avrd by a scoundrel, will be lessening the di g nity of OUI' government. Ilc is married into a powerful family, and appears, next to the \ V hitclrair, to have the most infiuencc in the Grand village . The g-enrr ... 1 |