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Title: The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 Humphreys, Mary Gay, d. 1915, ed
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on and hisregret that Pike should have missed the source of theRed River, which was part of his errand, writes:Yet I promise myself that the route over which youhave passed will afford some interesting scenes as wellto the statesman as the philosopher. This letter con-cludes with the gratifying statement that The Presidentmentioned you and your explorations to the source ofthe great river, in his address to Congress in handsometerms. To this letter Pike returned an answer relating hisSpanish experiences, and it is in keeping with that con-sideration that he showed for all his companions thathe urges the claims of the faithful Baroney still withSergeant Meek, and the fidelity of his men. To Dr.Robinson he pays the following tribute: Dr. Robinson has accompanied me the whole route,is still with me, and I take pleasure in acknowledgingI have received important services from him, as mycompanion in dangers and hardships, counselor in dif-ficulties, and one to whose chemical, botanical, and
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MONUMENT OVER THE GRAVE OF GENERAL PIKE ATSACKETTS HARBOR, X. Y. Through Texas to Louisiana 369 mineralogical knowledge the expedition is greatly in-debted—in short, Sir, he is a young gentleman of tal-ents, honor, and perseverance, possessing, in my hum-ble opinion, a military turn of mind, and would enter, Ibelieve, in case of an augmentation of the army, if hecould obtain a rank above a subaltern. The letter concludes: * I have been obliged to draw money of the Spanishgovernment, which I have to pay to their ambassadorat Washington. I supported those of my men who werewith me all the time in the Spanish country. Being sep-arated from my baggage and never permitted to haveit join me, and having been presented to the command-ant-general in a blanket cappot, I was under the neces-sity of going to very considerable expense to supportwhat I considered not only my honor, but the dignityof our army. This, when a captains pay is 1^2,400 perannum, was a ruinous thing to my finances; but I

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