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note books, maps, reports, and results, so far as obtained, of your 

 previous expedition. 



Very respectfully, vour obedient servant, 



JOHN B. FLOYD, 



Captain John Pope, 



Corps Topographical Engineers. 



Secretary of War. 



St. Louis, Missouri, 



3Iaij 5, 1857. 



Sir: I have the honor to report that I have completed the arrange- 

 ments and secured the tools and machinery necessary for the duties 

 assigned to me, and only await my final instructions, and the transfer 

 of the funds for which I submitted an estimate. 



Everything is in complete and perfect order, and to the manufa<;ture 

 of machinery and the procurement of everything necessary for a 

 thorough discharge of the duty the experience of the past two years 

 has been successfully applied. I doubt not that the expedition will 

 prove as successful as its most sanguine friends could anticipate. 



May I respectfully request that Mr. Howard and the other young 

 gentlemen to accompany the expedition be ordered to report to me in 

 New Orleans. 



I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, 



JOHN POPE, 

 Captain Topographical Engineers. 

 Hon. John B. Floyd, 



Secretary of War. 



[Extract.] 



Indianola, Texas, 



July 9, 1857. 



Sir: I have the honor to report tliat my party and train marched 

 from this place to-day fully equipped for the plains, and unless some 

 unforeseen delay occurs in providing transportation and supplies at 

 San Antonio for the enlisted men of the expedition, requisitions for 

 Avhich were transmitted some time since to the quartermaster at that 

 place, no halt will be made until I reach m}" camp on the Pecos. 



(Signed by Captain John Pope.) 



Camp on the Pecos River, near the 32d Parallel. 



September 7, 1857. 



Sir: I have the honor to report my arrival at this camp on the 2d 

 instant, and the resumption of the work near this place. 



