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THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, 1765-1781 431 great chief and a standard with the coat of arms to this Chief Anga- slkha who is most useful to me. Kindly refer, Sir, to my letter of June 18, last. I am also very much satisfied with my garrison. Sergeants, cor- porals, and soldiers are all busy working in spite of the heat. Their pay is not sufficient for their food and still less for their upkeep. That is why I take the liberty of recommending them to you. Anga- slkha is also requesting a gorget. I am sending back to the regiment the soldier of the 2nd company of the first battalion, Manuel Matu, who is suffering from a fistula incurable in this country, where he has performed no services since he has been here. May I make so bold as to hope that, although far away and thus unable to take advantage of opportunities to distinguish myself, I shall do nothing to prejudice my advancement. I am as confident as a good officer should be who is so fortunate as to serve under so distinguished a general as yourself, Sir. I have the honor of being, with deep respect, Sir, Your most humble and obedient servant. BALTHAZAR DE VILLIERS (Rubric) M. DON BERNARDO DE GALVEZ. CRUZAT TO MIRO August 6, 1781 358 My Dear Sir: Don Eugenio Purre, the captain of the second company of militia, Don Carlos Tayon, sub-lieutenant of the same company, and Don Luis Chevalier, a person versed in the languages of the Indians and selected by myself as interpreter of the expedition, accompanied by the great chiefs Heturno and Naquiguen, set out from this town of St. Louis of Ylinueses on the second of January of the present year with St. Joseph as their destination, as I wrote to the governor on the tenth of the same month and year. With Purre was a detachment of sixty-five militiamen, and sixty Indians of the Ottawa, Sotu, and Potawatomi nations who joined the afore- mentioned captain on the bank of the Illinois. He followed the route in pirogues along this bank and arrived the twentieth of the same month with all his expedition, despite the cold, ice and snow, and after many difficulties, at a place called Los Pes, eighty leagues from the said town of St. Louis. There he found it impossible to continue his route by water for the river was not navigable since it was en- tirely frozen over, and being under the necessity of accomplishing his undertaking, he continued his march to St. Joseph by land. ____________ 358 BL