tiste  Tesson,  Auguste  Vasquez,  Joseph  Verrot,  Patrick  White,
Tiery  Wright,  Louis  Zindel,  and  Jacob  Dodson,  a  free  young
colored  man  of  Washington  city,  who  volunteered  to  accom-
pany  the  expedition,  and  performed  his  duty  manfully  through-
out the  voyage.  Two  Delaware  Indian. — a  fine-looking  old
man  and  his  son — were  engaged  to  accompany  the  expedition
as  hunters,  through  the  kindness  of  Major  Cummins,  the  excel-
lent Indian  agent.  L.  Maxwell,  who  had  accompanied  the
expedition  as  one  of  the  hunters  in  1842,  being  on  his  way  to
Taos,  in  New  Mexico,  also  joined  us  at  this  place.
The  party  was  generally  armed  with  Hall's  carbines,  which
A'ith  a  brass  twelve-pound  howitzer,  had  been  furnished  to  me
from  the  United  States  arsenal  at  St.  Louis,  agreeably  to  the
orders  of  Colonel  S.  W.  Kearney,  commanding  the  third  mili-
tary division.  Three  men  were  especially  detailed  for  the
management  of  this  piece,  under  the  charge  of  Louis  Zindel,  a
native  of  Germany,  who  had  been  nineteen  years  a  non-com-
missioned oflicer  of  artillery  in  the  Prussian  army,  and  regu-
larly instructed  in  the  duties  of  .lis  profession.  The  camp
equipage  and  provisions  wers  transported  in  twelve  carts,
arawn  each  by  two  mules ;  and  a  light  covered  wagon,  mounted
on  good  springs,  had  been  provided  for  the  safer  carriage  of
mstruments.  These  were :
One  refracting  telescope,  by  Frauenhofer.
One  reflecting  circle,  by  Gambev.
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Two  sextants,  by  Trough  ton.
One  pocket  chl-onometer,  No.  837,  by  Goffe,  Falmouth.
One  pocket  chronometer.  No.  739,  by  Brockbank.
One  syphon  barometer,  by  Bunten,  Paris.
One  cistern  barometer,  by  Frye  and  Shaw,  New  York.
Six  thermometers,  and  a  number  of  small  compasses.
