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Show ].05 [ 174 J H ~~p 0 R 'f. Colonel J. J. AnEnT, \VM•HDa:ToN CITv, ltlarc/~; 1, 1~·15. U!tirf of the Co?'}JS of 1'opog?·ap/1ical Enginec1·s: Srn: Itt ptHStHtnco G>f your ir1st ru ctions, to COiltH!CL' the reconnoissauce of 1 42, which l hncl the lrouor to conduct wit It tltc surveys of ComruatHlcr Wilkes on the coa ' t of th Pacific ocean, ·o <t· to give a conuected snrvcy of the iuterior of our coutiucnt, 1 proceeded to tile (~reat \Ve~t early in the spring of 1 ·1~, and arrivet..l, on the 17th of l\Jn.y :tt the little town of Kansa, on the Mis~ouri f'rontic'r, nenr tire junction of tile Kan ·n.s river with the Mi sou ri river, where I W[lS detai11cd llt'ar two weeks iu completing the necessary p reparariow; for the cxtl'llclcd cxploratious wlr ich IllY ittstructious couten1platcd. l\Iy party consi. ted principally of Creole and Canauian French, n.nd America11s, amon11tiug iu all to ~39 men; amo11g whom you will recognise several of those who were with nw ir1 my fir,:;t expedition, and wlto lmvc been t:1.voral>ly brought to your notice iu a former report. .1\fr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, whom many year of hu rusbip ami exposure in the western territo ries !tad r'' IH..lc red fa miliar witll a portion of tlte country it \Va · designed to explore, llud becu selected as onr guide· aucl .l.Vlr. Charles PrC>u s, who had bern my assi ·taut iu tho pr •viou joumey was again n. ·~ociated with me iu tltc same capacity on the preseutexpeditio11. Agreeably to your directions, Mr. Theodo re Tal bot, of Washington city, had l>ectt attaclw<.l to the party, with a view to acl vallcemcllt in his prolc~:;ion · n.ml at St. Louis I had been joined by .J.\tlr. Frcucriak Dwig!tt, a geutlematt of Spriu o-ficld, Massach1tsetts, who availed him~clf ol' our overlrtlld joumcy to visit tile Sandwich i~lalld. aud China, by way or Fort YallCOUVer. The mcu CJ tgaged for tbc service were : Alexis Ayot, Frau~ois Badeau, Oliver B''aulieu, Baptiste Bernier, Johu A. Campbell, John G. Campbell, Manuel Chapml'tn, Ransom Clark, Philibert Co urteau, Michel Crl:lis, William 'rc uss, Clinton Deforest, llnpti te D<!rosier, Basil Lnjculle . c, Frauyois LajvuJJesse, Hcmy Lee, Louis M l:nard, Loui 1\Jontrcnil, Samuel Neal, Alexis Pcra, Fran ·ois Pcr:l, J umes P ower, Hapllacl Prouc, Oscar Sarpy, Baptiste Tabcan, Cltarlc ~ Tap I in, Bapt istc Tc son, Augu ·te Vasquez, .Jo·cph Verrot, Parnck White, Tierv \Vrighr, Loufs Zimicl, alH1 |
