APPENDIX. 
American enterprise. 
‘[From the Missouri Gazette,'] 
(No. 8.) 
WE last week promised our readers an account of the joiTV* 
&ey of the gentlemen attached to the New York Fur Company^ 
from the Pacific Ocean to this place—-We now lay it before our 
readers, as collected from the gentlemen themselves. 
On the 28th June 1812, Mr. Robert Steuart, one of the part- 
iners of the Pacific Fur Company, with two Frenchmen, Messrs. 
Ramsey Crooks and Robt. M'Clellan, left the Pacific Ocean with 
^despatches for New York. 
After ascending the Columbia river 90 miles, John Day, one 
of the hunters, became perfectly insane, and was sent back to 
the main establishment, under the charge of some Indians; the 
remaining six pursued their voyage upwards of 600 miles, 
when they happily met with Mr. Joseph Miller, on his way to 
the mouth of the Columbia; he had been considerably to the 
south and cast, among the nations called Blackarms and Arapa- 
hays, by the latter of whom he was robbed; in consequence of 
which, he suffered almost every privation human nature is ca¬ 
pable of, and was in a state of starvation and almost nudity whe-Q 
the party met him. 
They now had fifteen horses, and pursued their journey for 
the Atlantis world, without any uncommon accident, until with-* 
in about 200 miles of the Rocky mountains, where they unfortu* 
nately met with a party of the Crow Indians, who behaved with 
the most unbounded insolence, and were solely prevented from, 
cutting off the party, by observing them well armed and con» 
stantly on their guard. They however pursued on their track 
six days, and finally stole every horse belonging' to the party. 
Some idea of the situation of those men may be conceived^ 
when we take into consideration, that they were now on foot, and 
had a journey of 2©00 miles before them, 1500 of which was en¬ 
tirely unknown, as they intended and prosecuted it considerably 
south of Messrs. Lewis and Clark’s route; the impossibility of 
carrying any quantity of provisions on their backs, in addition $3 
tfoeir ammunition, and bedding, will occur at first view? 
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