APPENDIX 



LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL COMPANY^ 



[Extract from the New York "Evening Express," February 9, 1849.] 



A COMPANY of young men started yesterday after- 

 noon, who, under the command of Major H. L. 

 Webb and J. W. Audubon, will take the land 

 route via Corpus Christi, Monterey, etc., to the 

 gold regions of California. The whole company 

 will number one hundred. Thirty-five or forty 

 went from Philadelphia yesterday. 



They proceed direct to Cairo, which is the ren- 

 dez-vous of the party; here they will be joined by 

 companies from the West. At New Orleans or 

 thereabouts as most convenient, they will purchase 



^ The number of persons in the company varied widely at 

 different times. About eighty started from New York. The 

 list, here reprinted from the New York "Evening Express," 

 contains seventy-five names but does not claim to be com- 

 plete. Apparently a number of men from Philadelphia, but 

 not as many as stated above, joined the company, since it is re- 

 peatedly described as "at one time numbering ninety-eight." 

 The implication in the 'Journal that there were but sixty-five 

 at Cairo must be an error. About fifty started from Roma 

 with Mr. Audubon but the number reached fifty-seven at 

 Parras. One subsequently died, another remained at Mapimi, 

 three left the company at Ures, eleven took the boat from San 

 Diego and "about forty" continued the march to Los Angeles. 

 This seems to have been the number of the reunited company 

 in San Francisco, of whom thirty-eight, including Mr. Audu- 

 bon, made the tour of the southern mines. 



