A REPORT 
THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION 
OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA 
IN THE YEARS 1843—44 
INGTON OT, March 1, 1845. — and China, by way of Fort Van- 
Colonel J is J. Apert, Chief of the 
‘orps 0 Topographical Engineers : The he men caipnieedd for the service were: 
1g :—In pursuance of your instructions, | Alexis Ayot, Louis Ménard, 
to connect the reconnoissance of 1842, which | Francois Badeau, tidaie Montreuil, 
I had the honor to con , with the surveys | Oliver Beaulieu, 
f Comma il on the coast of the | Baptiste Bernier, 
Pacific ocean, so as to give a connected sur- } John A. Campbell, Frangois Pera, 
vey of the interior of our continent, I pro- | John G. Campbell, James Power, 
an, 
ceeded to the Great West early in the spring | Manuel oe Raphael Proue, 
of 1843, and arr 0 May, | Ra lar scar Sarpy, 
at the little town of Kansas, on the Mis- | Philibert Cita: Baptiste Tabeau, 
souri frontier, near the junction of the Kan- | Michel Crélis, harles Taplin, 
with th uri river, where I iliam Creuss, ptiste Tesson, 
was detained near two weeks in completing | Clinton Deforest, Auguste Pent 
€ necessary preparations for the extended | Baptiste sang Joseph Verrot, 
exploits which my instructions contem- | Basil Lajeunesse, k White, 
plated. vs es  Lajeunese, Tiery Wri right, 
My party aR s ssogin oye nit a Henry I Louis Zindel, and 
nadian French, and Am ns, | Jacob Dedasti a fie young colored man of 
an 
smoanting in all to 39 men ; ‘iteny ‘hide ashington city, who volunteered to ac- 
rforme 
oO company the : 
were with me in my first expedition, and | duty manfully throughout the voyage. Two 
vee have been ev orally brought to your laware Indians—a fine-looking old man 
Mr. Thomas ar 
in a former report. the his tim hi tg oe 
Fitspatrick, _—_ = al years of hiaidahip the wt) = ition as hunters, through 
and western territories, had of Major Cu cue eae 
adel eauttas With 5. portioned the Gade: dias agent. L. Maxwell, who had 
try it was designed to explore, had been se- | panied the expedition as one of the hunters 
lected as our guide; and Mr. Charles | in 1842, being on his way to Taos, in New 
wit armed 
me in the same capacity on the present ex- | Hall’ ines, which, with a brass 12-Db. 
it a ; i howitzer, (= ever spe one 
enal at St. 
a | of Springfield, agement of this piece under the 
5 noite himself of our | Louis Zindel, a native of Germany, who had 
, to visit the Sandwich | been 19 years a nop-commissioned officer 
