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eral departments above enumerated his services will be re¬ 
quired in collecting specimens suitable to be preserved, in 
drafting and delineating them, in preserving the skins, &c., 
of animals, and in sketching the stratifications of rocks, 
earths, &c., as presented on the declivities of precipices.” 
His services were paid for at the rate of $1.50 per day, and 
the principal naturalists received $2.00 per day, and all were 
allowed one ration per day until they left Council Bluffs. 
His brother Rembrandt, writing to this boy of nineteen 
while the expedition was organizing at Pittsburg, gives him 
the following advice: 
“I suspect that you will be the only draughtsman. I 
therefore recommend you to practice immediately sketching 
from nature. I know how well you draw when you have the 
object placed quietly before you, but if you practice sketch¬ 
ing from human figures as well as animals and trees, hills, 
cataracts, &c., you will be able to present us with many cu¬ 
rious and interesting representations. Get into the habit 
of making notes of everything as it occurs, no matter how 
short. Memoranda written at the moment have always an 
interest of accuracy that distant recollections never have. 
Make drawings of the Indians in their various dresses; these 
will be infinitely more interesting than if made from the 
dresses put on white men afterwards. Give us some accurate 
drawings of their habitations. I have never seen one that 
was decently finished.” 
The expedition left Pittsburg May 5, 1819, and on the 9th 
of June reached St. Louis. The west side of the Missouri 
River was then followed, and winter quarters were estab¬ 
lished at Council Bluffs, near the site of the present city of 
Omaha, on the 19th of September. The party remained 
here until the following spring, and on the 6th of June, 
1820, began the march by way of the Platte River to the 
Rocky Mountains. When the party left the engineer can¬ 
tonment it consisted of twenty persons, with tw T enty riding 
animals and eight pack animals. The personal belongings 
of the members of the expedition were carried by each one 
