'Informe RESERVADO sobre el Establecimiento de Ross' — Vallejo's first-person military reconnaissance of…

'Informe RESERVADO sobre el Establecimiento de Ross' — Vallejo's first-person military reconnaissance of the Russian coast/interior (EXPANDED-ENTRY CANDIDATE). Part 1 (n97–104): left Ross the 28th, reached Puerto de Bodega (7 leguas off) = 4 wooden factory-buildings the Russians built to serve their ships/foreigners and export what they extract; the Bodega + 'San Francisco alias Los Tamales' bay geography (navigable, small craft 6 leguas inland); ⭐⭐⭐ at Bodega permanently only 'una Capitanía de gentiles' — 43 people under Captain *Guchactac* — whose purpose is to GUARD the Russian factories (unmolested by other Indians; San Rafael mission-Indian scouts, 'un tal Rafael'); ⭐⭐ Indian grievances/intelligence (soldiers luring gentiles & fugitive Christians then imprisoning them → San Rafael/Sonoma to Christianize; Indians 'resueltos á morir' — ⚠ rough paleography, transcribe before quoting); rode inland to Santa Rosa (12 leguas from Bodega) — the arroyo where the Russians farmed 'dos años hace' (~1831), depopulated rancherías (Selayomi), irrigable lands, ⭐ 'abunda de castores' (beaver/otter) + 'vestigios de los antiguos pescadores'; ⭐⭐⭐ Santa Rosa/Jaquiximi has 'las mejores circunstancias para la fundación de un pueblo' (the reconnaissance behind the Sonoma-frontier counter-colonization); his Indian-pacification diplomacy; ⭐⭐⭐ a denunciation of the missionaries' 'mala fé, maltrato y crueldad… sistema sanguinario… ¡Qué monstruosidades!' as the root of frontier-Indian hostility. Part 2 (n105–n111, ✅ BOUNDARY RESOLVED 2026-07-11 on a leaf re-read — it IS continuous first-person Vallejo, NOT a spliced re-copy: n104's mission-cruelty denunciation flows directly into 'todos los medios que estuvieron á mi alcance… según V.S. me encargó… por conducto del Comandante [Barón] Wrangel'): strategic intelligence on the wider Russian establishment — the RAC Pacific network (Ross, Unalaska, Kodiak, Kamchatka), Ross ~400 people + fortifications against native uprisings + a fleet (13 vessels: 3 frigates, 9 brigs) + peltry commerce + Ross livestock (~800 cattle, 100 horses, 200 sheep, 60 pigs), citing data via Wrangel/'el Comandante.' Part 3 — the Ross-fort reconnaissance (n107–110, the fuller extent the earlier sampling read missed): the orchard of 400 fruit trees, 2 mills (one wind, one water), and the buildings/ships for the peltry trade; the fort itself — ~300 people; a wooden quadrilateral stockade with 12 artillery pieces on 2 corner bastions/blockhouses + 6 more inside a loopholed building + 3 at the Comandante's house (marine carriages); '39 edificios,' 4 inside the walls; the governor of Sitka expected at Ross ~12 June 1833; and the Ross Comandante's offer of 36 men to help attack the hostile Indians, which Vallejo declined ('aunque el objeto no era hostil'). ⚠ the '39 edificios / 4 dentro de la muralla' description in n107–110 partly REPEATS an earlier building count — possible internal re-copy/overlap in this re-copy-heavy volume; verify verbatim before quoting the fort structure. Closes n111 with the patriotic peroration — cooperate 'al esplendor… de mi Nación y á la prosperidad de esta parte preciosa é interesante de la Gran República Mejicana.' — a keystone document., (Santa Rosa/Bodega/Guchactac), (mission-cruelty denunciation + Indian labor for the Russians). ✅ document extent now FIXED = n97–n111 (Doc 46 begins mid-n111). ⚠ full verbatim TX still pending — all figures/quotes are scale-2 abstracts to verify at scale 4 before citing.

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