[33] The Indian village of San Felipe has disappeared from the modern map but the name is borne by a creek in this valley. The journey from the Colorado to San Diego is described in Bartlett's Personal Narrative, and the itinerary is given in Marcy's Prairie Traveler (New York, 1859). An edition of the latter book, disguised as Burton's Handbook of Overland Expeditions, was issued in London in 1863.

[34] Charles Franklin Carter's Missions of Nueva California (San Francisco, 1900), gives a good description of the present condition of the mission buildings of California. Under the inspiration of Charles F. Lummis, the "Landmarks Club" of Los Angeles has undertaken the work of repairing and preserving their ruins. See also Missions of California, by Laura Bride Powers, (New York, 1897) and In and Out of the Old Missions of California, by George Wharton James (Boston, 1905).

[35] Edward Murray, at this time a lieutenant, resigned from the service in 1855, was afterwards an officer in the Confederate army.

[36] Edward O. C. Ord (1818-1883), at this time a first lieutenant, later a major general in the Civil War. His long and distinguished service gives his name a place in every American cyclopaedia and biographical dictionary.

[37] San Luis Rey was reoccupied and a Franciscan college established there in 1893.

[38] San Fernando is, of all the missions of California, in the best condition. Its two principal buildings are in a good state of preservation and the church has been re-roofed by the "Landmarks Club."

[39] There is a map of the mining camps in H. H. Bancroft's History of California, vol. vi, pp. 368-369. Topographical details are given in the "Claim" sheets, issued by the United States Geological Survey. The inset in the map of Audubon's route, at the end of this volume, is intended to locate only the places visited by him.

[40] The text is here slightly confused. Perhaps Audubon wondered what would become of the "mushroom town" through which he had just passed.

[41] The number of persons in the company varied widely at different times. About eighty started from New York. The list, here reprinted from the New York "Evening Express," contains seventy-five names but does not claim to be complete. Apparently a number of men from Philadelphia, but not as many as stated above, joined the company, since it is repeatedly described as "at one time numbering ninety-eight." The implication in the Journal that there were but sixty-five at Cairo must be an error. About fifty started from Roma with Mr. Audubon but the number reached fifty-seven at Parras. One subsequently died, another remained at Mapimi, three left the company at Ures, eleven took the boat from San Diego and "about forty" continued the march to Los Angeles. This seems to have been the number of the reunited company in San Francisco, of whom thirty-eight, including Mr. Audubon, made the tour of the southern mines.

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