You Will Naturally
In Providing Your Self For The Expedition, Provide Suitable
Instruments, And Especially The Best Maps Of The Interior To Be
Found.
It is desirable besides what is enumerated as the object
of enterprise that you note particularly the number of
Warriors
that may belong to each tribe, or nation that you may meet with:
their alliances with other tribes and their relative position as
to a state of peace or war, and whether their friendly or warlike
dispositions towards each other are recent or of long standing.
You will gratify us by describing the manner of their making War,
of the mode of subsisting themselves during a state of war, and a
state of peace, their Arms, and the effect of them, whether they
act on foot or on horse back, detailing the discipline, and
manuvers of the war parties, the power of their horses, size and
general discription; in short any information which you may
conceive would be useful to the Government. You will avail
yourself of every opportunity of informing us of your position
and progress, and at the expiration of your leave of absence will
join your proper station.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your Ot St
(Signed) Alexr Macomb Maj Genl Comg
To Cap: B. L E Bonneville
7th Regt Infantry
New York
End of The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving
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