Show 0 J X 00 A 0 0 0 oa 00 ool 44 11 N R 01 OA T 11 ditar a note till this account of a sev av century scientific eclen was wa in the auburn III citizen IS 18 IW an a an item of local in there tiling 1 at that place at that e anany deat of I 1 auly the tile en il it e bolty ya I 1 arises l and idler families being represented in the allt at the original in I 1 rench in fit the possession of johr pauley of who as at the time cf of the pub desalon belling hi his illinois kirmen thie this account to I 1 particularly interest Inte reit ag at thie this allm as a it describe a the con pre prevailing on the coast of call ainia in 1769 an event fittingly celebrate ce lebrat hi pd by the gorden onto city the malady described by 1 auly lauy which the ranks of 0 the frnia ead llalon occurred at tr tits ame same time aa sev ev ral other writer writers mention a very evere severe prevalence of curvy scurvy in n california and ond w probably th the saw samo 1 HE observation ol 01 the tran ett sit ot of venue on tho ad ot at june 1796 has a an obet of interest to all we 0 learned the hoyal floyal acad li emy of 0 science sciences d to the king louie louls XV to make the necessary necca enry outlay to send to california for this purpose the late M labbe chappe undertook thia this voy igo with a courage worthy of bis his leal teal ter or the progress tB of science I 1 was ae so lecter to accompany him and we vet sail for alei ico leo in the month of september 1768 after a perilous voyage ot at about leagues we arrived in mexico exico At on easter day 1769 9 time waa was lis pissing saing we topped stopped but eight daya days to re ro treah reen ourselves ours elvee the tho viceroy procured us mules ind provisions 11 and we undertook to perform by land lavil a part of 0 the remainder ot of our travels which was about league leagues amid lofty mountains dreadful Ire adful precipices and arid deserts we tend new dangers every day we tailed failed from fear a thousand time times we were also oppressed by the excessive heat beat which I 1 left ett u ua a hardly strength enough tp drag ourselves A thousand of 0 every specie gave us DO no rest by day or night and we bad had constantly to be on our guard agriest the very ferocious beaste with which the sauntry la Is cohered moreover we the neo nee ee es earlee sarles of 0 life for the provisions that we got in mexico had been spoiled by the beat heat we were to lire live on wild cattle and whatever fruits we could find here and there wo we made our halts near some river or spring that we might blake stake the burning thirst with which we were era constantly continued to find one it waa was often necessary to march a whole daye days journey arrived in the evening in some valley alley or on the epe silo of sonae bill hill we ne would endeavor to take jlou tbt tb ground et a la to belle etoille etol lle tho the repose abitol our cruel fatigue rendered so necessary nhen he scarce ec arcel abie we ue were often aroused by a storm and then by the impetuous torrents tor renta that came lowi down ue us from the heights of the moun bains many a dark night we me had to save our pelves and our fearful at every stop of tumbling down doan come seine of the precipices after running a thousand bieke wo we arrived at lul at ho the port of san illas on an tho the pacific ocean thence we w embarked for california on a brigan tine fine which the viceroy of mexico had had lind pro pared the ocean although very iran tran quit Is oot not the less les dangerous on account of the vig tes with ith which it Is tilled the creat calm which prevailed at that time caused ui u to despair of arriving in time to accod the of at our voyage after elx sit weeks si tiling during which we made but 1110 1 leagues on the greatest grea teft breadth of the sea the chariness of the lime time caused us to riek risk a h Imar doue exploit the part of california near which we found our lelve ans ns the port of san JOBO joso OO 00 dangerous that no one bad had ever landed there the access to it Is guarded by the incessant wate waves that break impetuously against the rock rocks the spanish astron astronomers omera who were of our com pany wished to m watt aft for a favorable wind to land at cape st ducai 1 ducai which wae as distant but ten league leagues the landing there la Is indeed less danger due but we e did not follow their addico because we were bresat d to arrive at the place of our dea des antion ti wo we resolved to attempt ta dis at the farat land we should discover lili tille thee these gentlemen were yet deliberating four indian sailors a and 1 myself let down the long act we took with us half of the instruments Instrument a I 1 01 f Z al N agreed with the abbe chappe that if we per dished ho he might find other mean to land else with the rest which would be sufficient for making his observations I 1 embarked then in the long boat vita my tour four sailors steering ete ering dl tit erectly tor for the coast the nearer we vie approached it U the more we were sensible of the difficulty of landing ne e were constantly thrown thron back by the acau mutated inu waves ayes and our boat threatened all tha while to ship water N hen on the joint of 0 losing courage one of the sailors discovered at a die dis lance tance the mouth of an unknown river this dis tits covery animated us we reached the coast by this mouth but with great difficulty I 1 sent bick b ick the long boat for the abbe chaplo anil and the spanish astronomers who ho arrived safely enough arrived on the peninsula the twenty first of 0 may 1763 13 days before the epoch of the tran git alt of venua venus e found no azile a i bouvar mettre a labar the inclemency of the weather the savages that repaired to us eald said that a con faglon was prevailing in this country which agid it completely the interpreter who trans thie this added that they eald said that in n order to withdraw ourselves from front the influence of 0 this ter malady it was as necessary to remove some hundred or more leagues farther to the north the means weans ot of undertaking thie title new journey broken don down with fatigue as we were nere we ae had delther horses nor carriers to transport our bag gage it was wa impossible to march on foot toot and we shrank from a journey through a desert all these reasons bedded us to occupy ourselves with no business but that which had brought ua us ve e labored to construct an observatory which m was as ready the eighth day of may six days before the epoch when we would have need of it wo we made our observations on the third of june with the exactness the contagion tont aglon mado made new progress every day a general sorrow reigned in all this part of call fornia we were not long without participating in it in a distressing manner this dreadful mandy came upon us six or sten tin en days after the ob observe tion 0 o wire wholly holly without succor 0 we o could not be useful to one anoint because we were at tacked almost all at once the little medicine that ve ye had bad brought from france was useless from want ant ot of knowing how to apply it nevertheless the abbe all eick sick as he was con tinned hi lit observations all the time after observing an eclipse of the moon he at last yield ed to lis faintness the delirium ot of his disease left hink hlin but little luid to examine himself he died thed the first of augua 1769 we were all dylus 1 I and the companions of our voyage when I 1 bad had the sorrow to close his eellis our situation and our want of strength induced us in n this case to bury aim him without much cere jaous a I 1 devoted some souto moment moments to regret tor for the lose I 1 had buttered suffered anu and in the height of a disease frodi which I 1 did not expect to recover I 1 look took the precaution to collect ell all the papers relating to the object of tue voyage I 1 placed them in a casket with ith an address to the viceroy of mexico I 1 earnestly begged some indian chiefs who were about me te to make inake thia this casket satt la in case we w should all die and to transmit it to the vessel which ought to arrive in the month of 0 SaD to taky take us my intention in thia this was to becu r t tc ray country tills this valuable depot I 1 remained in roy my condition of sickness filc kness pain and wretchedness until the twenty ninth of september at last tar captain of the vessel art arrived aril ved ived he had landed at the island of ceralvo cejalvo alvo which Is situ abed seine 30 X leng tea from san jose my aty loy joy wae was so much the greater la seeing him that he pressed me to quit the fearful place where at labbe hippo hippe april all the rest had bad died wo we were car led ried to I 1 forgot to say that this cruel contagion ina taken from ua us the ch chaplain aDlain and nearly all the persons that formed our little com pan y although sick and oppressed with grief I 1 was compelled to undertake the perilous route which I 1 had followed follo Ned in n coming sometimes upon mules sometimes upon the backs tacks of the indians when it was necessary to croas tho the streams with all thia this trouble I 1 reached mexico the twenty third da do of november 1769 there I 1 vas A as received by monsieur the marqula marquis of croix the viceroy a 01 that country with a corn passion worthy orthy of that good patriot he bad had had the kindness to bend send to meet me i i carriage and his physics in arrived at the capital of mexico and haling bald iny my respects to the cicero I 1 was lodged by hiji his ordera orders at the expense of the th e city uben I 1 laft ft mexico the marquis de croix rec roe om commended me cordially to the commander of 0 the spanish fleet in which I 1 embarked ve e land ed at eidl the twenty of july 1770 the court ft ft ot at the I 1 hid had myself taken thither and presented myself to the marqula d 09 sun then french in spain he ile received me with alth marka marks of at kindness and consider c 0 aaion and gme to enow show me ine whatever er thy have to enow show stringers in thia this royal house he caused me to dispatch in advance of the I 1 arty the strictest gordei through the minister of customs that at no pis pas on my route must be searched seir serc ched bed either myself or the in which were acre the observations willal ahl h I 1 bore I 1 did not arrhe arrise in eirls till the fifth of the tho fol rot lowing december I 1 sent to the academy the ob sensations sena tlona that we ae made in california this so clety expressed the greatest satisfaction with alth my zeal and my services the presented me in 0 to the t it a king and to all his luil ministers listers they so solicited for me a of my labors his ills ma maly joty louie louis XV granted roe me a mall pension of boot ahe government tg is too equitable equi tible to leave me in want in the hewer of my age with the evils chith ahl h I 1 have incurred for the service and indispensably obliged to nave have a servant to lead me I 1 hope then from bis his justice and from hia his goodness that he will grant m me e an ail In increase creame of the pension pe sufficient to enable me to accomplish wi with th d decency the macy mt rest of my public career |