Show ay kcf aa abl A in A L y 0 N 97 ile f NM N M A 4 14 va 10 V A L lElI tors rhote this account at a bev century flo expedition as published in the auburn 1111 citizen larch 18 ISK as an tern of local in there living at that place at thit kinle anothy descendants of pauly the on aneer the doleys looters and ibber fI milles being represented in the list the original jal manuscript in french wax III the possession of john bauley of X ial ajas va olo was at the time of the pub h tion visiting his illinois kinsmen I 1 account in particularly interest ing it tills time an it describes the con prevailing on the coast of call in 1769 an event ce lebrat td br the golden gate city the tri described by pauly arl decimated the ranks of the french elpe occurred at the same an sov oral other writers mention a very sayer ua lo 10 prevalence of scurvy in california and was probably the same I 1 ITE observation of the arati sit of venus on the ad of I 1 june was an of interest to all the IT learned the royal acad emy of ig proposed to the king louis XV to make the necessary nece outlay to send to california for this purpose ine han NI babbe chappe undertook this voy it age with R courage worthy of his zeil or progress pro greag of science I 1 was so lecter to accompany him and arid we set sail for mexico in the mouth of 0 september 1768 after a perilous voyage of about leagues we arrived in mexico on easter day 1769 time waa was passing we stopped hut but eight day days to refresh ourselves the viceroy procured ua us mules ind nd provisions and we undertook to perform by land laud a part of the rem remainder alader of our travel travels which was as about leagues amid jotty mountains adful feen and arid deserts dee crt wo we ard ll 11 d new danger dangers very every day we baled from fe ear a r a thousand kimt s wa we were at also ro oppressed by the excessive brat beat which left us hardly strength enough to drag ourselves A thousand insect insects of every specter g give ave us no rest b day or night and we e had constantly const antty to be on ear guard against the very ferocious beasts with which the la in covered moreover we tacked lacked the ta narles 1 of life for the provisions that we got tn in mexico had been polled br by the heat beat we were to live on wild cattle and whatever fruits we could find her und and there ve no made our halts near oear some river or spring pring that we might slake the burning thirst with which bich we were constantly consumed to find one it was as often necessary to march a whole daye days journey arrived in the evening in some valley or on the ate of ome hill we e would endeavor to take iliou the ground et a la belle etoille etol llo the repose which abich our cruel fatigue rendered so men ban scarcely we were often a doused by i it storm and then theu by the th impetuous torrents torren tR that cattle down us froni from the heights of the mountains many a dark night we had bad to ave save our pelves and our equipage fearful at evry step of tumbling down some of the precipices after running a thousand risks we arrived at last at the port of san illas blas on the pacific ocean thence we eth embarked barked for california on a brigan tine line which the viceroy of mexico bad had had pro pre pared the oan mean although very tran tram quil Is not theress tho tess dangerous on account of the vt eles with which it Is filled the great calm which prevailed at that time e a bulted us to despair of arriving in time alo Q to accod the object of our voyage after six weeks sallins during which we roade made but leagues on the greatest Kea test breadth of the sea the shortness on 0 of the fine caused us to risk a hazardous exploit the part of california near which we found our selves was the port of san jose so dangerous that no one had ever landed there the access to it ie is guarded by the in waves that break impetuously against the rocks the spanish who were of our corn pan pany wished to wait for or I 1 favorable wind to land at cape st lucas which was distant but toa league leagues the landing there Is indeed less danger out ou but we did not follow their advice because re we were pressed to arrive at the place of our des ties we resolved to attempt to disembark at the first land we should discover wafe there gentlemen were yet deliberating cur indian sailor sailors and myself let down the long ap t we took with us halt of the instruments I 1 it agreed with mth the abbe chappe that hat II 11 we perished be he might find other means to land elsewhere with ith the rest which would be sufficient for or making hie his observations I 1 embarked then in the long boat afta ath my four sailors leering steering dl erectly for the coast the nearer we approached it the more we ae were sensible of the difficulty of landing ne ve were ere constantly thrown back by the acau mutated waves and our boat threatened all the hile to ship water ben on the point of losing courage one of the sailors discovered at a distance the mouth of an unknown river thia this dis covery animated us we reached the coast by this mouth but with great difficulty I 1 sent back the boat for the abbe chappe and the spanish astronomers who arrived alved safely enough arrived on the peninsula the twenty drat of may tiny 13 days before the epoch of tho the transit of venus we found no azile azlie a notis mettro a babir the inclemency of the weather the savages that rep repaired alree to us said that P ft con ingdon was prevailing in this country wha ray aged it completely the who translated this added that they said that in order to withdraw ith draw ourselves from the influence of this terrible malady it was necessary to remove some hundred or more leagues farther to the north the means of undertaking this new journey broken down with fatigue as a we were we bad had neither horses nor carriers carr lera to transport our bag gage it was impossible to march on foot and we shrank from a journey through a desert all these reasons decided us to occupy ourselves with no business but that which had brought us vie ue labored to construct an observatory which as ivady the twenty eighth day of may six sit day days bufore the epoch when we would have need of it we made our observations ou on the third of june with the greatest ex exactness actues the contagion made new no W progress every day a 14 general sorrow reigned in all this part of california for tila we e were not riot long without participating in it in a distressing manner this dreadful malady came upon us six 1 or seven day days after the cb ob erva tion lne e were wholly without succor we could not be usef useful to one adoth because we were at tacked almost all at once the luttio medicine that we had brought from franci nas useless from want of knowing bow how to apply it nevertheless the abbe all tick sick as be was continued his observations all the time alter observing an eclipse of the moon he at last yielded to his faintness the delirium of bis his disease left him but little time to examine himself he died the first of august 1769 wi wis were ere all dying 1 I and the companion companions of our aoah vo yap ah hen aben I 1 bad had the sorrow to close bis his eyelids cy ellda our situation and la want of strength induced us in this cae case tw to bury him without auca cera cerea a nony I 1 devoted soma mor rients to regret for the lose loss I 1 had suffered sad ua lu a the blight of a disease from which I 1 did not expect to recover t took the precaution to collect all the papers pacers relating to the i mi aill ii i i th object ot of the voyage I 1 placed them in a cask caskel il with an address to the viceroy of mexico I 1 earnestly begged some indian chiefs who wert about me to inake this casket safe la in case we w should all die bad to transmit it to the vesel which ought to arrive in the month ot of Sept september Septem embel bet to take tale us ly intention in this was to secure tc ta ray my country this valuable depot I 1 remained in my condition of sickness pain and wretch wretchedness ednes until the twenty ninth of september at last ahr captain of the vessel arrived b be had landed it the island of cejalvo ceralvo alvo alve which Is situ abed come same JO leasing s from san jose my aly joy was so much the greater in seeing him that he pressed me to quit he she fearful place where M labbe hape mape aej all the real rest had bad died we were car flee tied to cejalvo 1 I 1 forgot to ray that this cruel cruet con agton had taken from us the chaplain and neady neatly all the persons that formed our little coin pan i A though sick and oppressed with arii f I 1 wa was corn coin ellid to undertake the perilous mule which I 1 bac bat followed in coming sometimes mutes mules sometimes som eUmea upon the backs of the indians indiana when it wae was tie necessary essary to rrose the streams tre aias with all this tro trouble uLle I 1 reached mexico the twenty awen y thiro third day of nov tb tiber tir there I 1 wac received by monsieur the marqula marquis of croix the vi vl alroy roy of that country with a corn passion worthy bt 0 mat good patrio he ile had bad had the kindness to senci to tn meet me MP a carriage and hie his physician arrived at the capital of bl mexico exico and stud caving baving paid my respects to the viceroy I 1 was lodged by his orders order alexis at the expense of the city when I 1 left mexico c 0 the marquis de do croix recommended 0 om orn mended me roe cordially to the commander o ol 01 I 1 the spanish fleet in which I 1 embarked we land cd ed at cadt cadiz th the e twenty first of july 1770 the court was at the Es curtal 1 hod had myself taken thither and presented myself to the marquis d Os run oun then F french ach ambassador lu lb spain he ile received a roe me marks of kindness and consideration and gave gare orders to show in me e whatever have to how show strangers stranger 9 in this royal bouse house they lie lle caused me to dispatch in advance of party the strictest orders through the the minister r of 0 customs that at no pass on searched my route in must us t be b cither either myself or the chests in which were the observations which I 1 bore I 1 did not arrive in paris parts till the fifth of the following december I 1 sent to the ac academy ademy the ob Berra tlona ions that we made in cal california ifo rula this society expressed the greatest satisfaction xeal zeal arid my services cervices they with my king and to nil all his minister ministers presented me to the they solicited for me a recommendation of my labors his ills louie XV granted me a email small pension majesty of tle government la Is too equitable boor want in the flower of to leave me in my age amoc ed with evils which t bave have incurred the for or the indispensably eer ealco vice and obliged to have a it me too I 1 bope hope then from his servant to lead ad just justice e and arid from his hi goodness tha he will grant me an farea increase pension sufficient to enable me to 0 ot 0 thi the decency the rest test of cur MY dublin caleop care accomplish wit |