An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, rivers performed by order of the Government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when conducted through these provinces, by order of the captain-general, in the year 1807 / By Major Z.M. Pike ; illustrated by maps and charts.

Zebulon Pike

Date:: 1810

Credit: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, rivers performed by order of the Government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when conducted through these provinces, by order of the captain-general, in the year 1807 / By Major Z.M. Pike ; illustrated by maps and charts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ No. 19. ] a EXCELLENT SIR} ON the 16th of February last, John Robinson appeared before the governor of New Mexico, saying that he was a Frenchman, in- habitant of St. Louis, which place he left on the 15th June last year, with the view of going to the country of the Pananas to make re- coveries ; that having received information that his debtors had di- rected their steps to said province, he had concluded to follow them, in company with 15 other persons, who went for ‘the purpose of hunting on the rivers of Arcs, Arkansaw and Colorado; (Red river) that in the neighbouring mountains the two last of his company had left him, for which reason he saw himself under the necessity of proceeding to the Yutas Indians, to whom he exposed his situation, and who accordingly agreed to conduct him. | ‘On the 25th of the same month of February, at the distance of 4 days march from the town of Santa‘ Fe, and 9 leagues west of its set- tleriient, at the place called'the Ojocaliente, (Hot Spring) near the confluence of Rio Grande-del Norte, (Great North river) and that known under the name River de los Conejos, (of Rabbits) a detach- ment of the garrison of said province of New Mexico, met Montgo-. mety Pike, first lieutenant of the infantry of the United States, with eight men of the said infantry 5) who on*being given to understand that he must be conducted to said town, consented to accompany thei. It was then settled that two of his men should remain on the spot.with half of his catholic majesty’s detachment, to wait for six others who had not yet arrived, and he proceeded to the governor's, to whom he declared, that his being in that neighbourhood was: owing solely to his having been lost, and having mistaken the’ Rio _ @él Norte for the Colorado. But this officer in compliance with the dérders of this, his superior officer, forwarded the said first lieutenant with the six men of the American army, and the above mentioned John Robinson to this capital. | They arrived here on the 2d instant, and said officer on being presented to me, laid before me in the same manner as he had done to the governor of Santa Pe, the papers relative to his mission; the correspondence he had carried on with your excellency since it com- menced, with his journals and note books. Your excellency is not ignorant of the repeated representations made by the king’s minister in the United States, and by the mar- _ quis of Cassa Calva while he was in Louisiana, summoning the - > é ‘4

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