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Do Ameryki i w Ameryce (To America and in America)

Kalikst Wolski · 1876 · Polish — primary, as act

Transcription: doc/text/books/1800/wolski/reunion_excerpt/polish_clean.md, doc/text/books/1800/wolski/reunion_excerpt/english_clean.md (chs XXI, XXIII–XXVI); also Coleman's English excerpt doc/text/books/1800/wolski/new_light.pdf and the full Polish scan doamerykiiwamer00wolsgoog.pdf

What it is

The travel memoir of a Polish émigré who was among the first colonists at La Reunion, covering his arrival, the colony's brief life, and its unraveling (May–Nov 1855). Published Lwów 1876, but built on a diary kept on the spot — chapters XXIV and XXVI are dated near-contemporaneous journal entries. The Réunion chapters (XXI, XXIII–XXVI) are transcribed + translated; XXII is an unrelated frontier tale, skipped.

Author's position

A "forty-eighter" Pole. He and Cousin led the first party (left Europe in winter, reached America end of Feb 1855, the colony 3 May 1855). Spoke English, so he became the colony's interpreter and its agent in Dallas, riding in daily on colony business — giving him an unusual view of both the colony and the Dallas-side dealings (land, the merchant "Gold," the meat market). Left ~15 Nov 1855 as the colony broke up.

Stake

Lower than the other primary-as-act voices, and that matters. Wolski was not management, not a shareholder, not a faction, and the venture was not his to defend — so his account is less self-exculpatory than [[savardan]]'s or [[burkli]]'s. He is broadly sympathetic to the project and notably generous to Considerant's ability ("wise men's errors are proportional to their wisdom"). The 1876 framing and literary set-pieces (a long Chateaubriand quotation; the rattlesnake-"magnetism" tales; Mme Considerant's "cedar salon") are an author performing for readers — separate the reportage from the embellishment.

Access

First-hand on the founding and the collapse, May–Nov 1855; the interpreter's window onto Dallas; a contemporaneous diary. Absent after mid-Nov 1855 — he left as the share-redemption began, so he witnesses the start of the corporate unwind (Leguay reclaiming 10,000 fr in kind; Considerant's 25¢/acre relocation plan) but not its completion.

Known distortions / how to weight

• Corroborates [[beecher]] closely — Vezian (25) and Ruppert (Swiss journalist) dead; 8 of 130 in August; the staged plan (agricultural associations first, phalansteries in 6–10 yrs). Note the dependency: Beecher cites Wolski's journal, so the agreement is partly because Wolski is a source for the secondary literature, not an independent check of it.
• Discrepancy to log: Wolski has Savardan arriving with 75 colonists; Beecher (via Savardan) says 43. Wolski's figure may be the en-route expectation/hearsay reported in a diary entry written before the group's arrival.
• His causal account (a fourth voice for the dissolution node): primary = murderous climate + isolation (no way to exchange products); secondary = discord (the tailor Maget's faction), disease, and "European immaturity for association," with a striking argument pinning endurance on women's education.
• Unique value: the sole non-French/Swiss eyewitness; the only source that gives Mme (Julie) Considerant a real portrait (fills the women gap); dense material detail — diet, the weekly giełda (labor exchange), the no-butcher Dallas meat market, Colonel Johnson's land-warrant speculation, César Daly ("Dailly") directing the buildings then leaving for Panama.

Cross-references

[[savardan]] · [[burkli]] · [[considerant-du-texas]] (the four primary-as-act voices that diverge on why it failed), [[beecher]] (draws on Wolski's journal). Events/claims attach in TIMELINE.md (roadmap).

Timeline extraction

Wolski timeline — events extracted from the eyewitness diary

Source: Kalikst Wolski, Do Ameryki i w Ameryce (Lwów, 1876), Part II, chs. XXIII–XXVI — the Réunion chapters. Translation in doc/text/books/1800/wolski/reunion_excerpt/english_clean.md; page numbers below are the printed book pages ⟨ ⟩.

Why this source matters: Wolski is the only contemporaneous eyewitness who kept a dated diary on the ground (1855.05–11). Where the promoters (Considerant) and the later memoirists (Savardan, Cordillot) reconstruct, Wolski dates. Format matches TIMELINE.md for later merge.

Dated events (the diary spine)

1854.??.?? - Considerant's letter reaches Wolski (New York): the Brussels society will
             send "the first pioneers... numbering 40, by sailing ship from Antwerp to
             New Orleans"; asks Wolski to receive them at New Orleans and guide them to
             Texas [chs XII-XIII area, PDF ~124-125; OCR pass, untranscribed]
1854.11.01 - Wolski sails New York -> New Orleans (Capt. Klark's sailing ship); towed
             onto the Mississippi 11.17; waits ~3 months at New Orleans [ch. XIV, book
             p. 180-181; OCR pass]
1854.12.?? - Cantagrel reaches Dallas from Belgium "five months earlier" than the
             3 May arrival; holds funds + authorization from the Brussels committee ⟨277⟩
1855.02.20 - newspapers announce "the ship 'Lexington', on which the colonists sent
             from Antwerp were sailing (whose name I knew from Considerant's letter)"
             in quarantine, due at New Orleans in 38 hours [ch. XVII, book p. 221]
1855.02.~22 - Lexington docks at New Orleans; Cousin ("commander of the 34 first
             colonists") greets Wolski by name off the gangplank; 3 days unloading
             (incl. fruit-tree seedling crates -> Ursuline convent yard); ~10 days
             buying tents + provisions [ch. XVII, book pp. 221-222]
1855.03.?? - (early March) the party takes the steamer "South America" New Orleans ->
             Galveston, 48h, deck passage by choice; thence Houston [ch. XVII, book
             pp. 222-224]
1855.04.?? - the ox convoy leaves Houston: "37 people (that is, 33 of us, for three
             remained in Houston, and four wagoners)", 20 yoke, 4 wagons, 3 ponies;
             32-day march [ch. XXI ⟨251⟩]
1855.05.03 - Wolski/Cousin convoy reaches Réunion after 32 days' march from Houston;
             finds one house ready, a second begun, a separate kitchen ⟨276–280⟩ [XXIII]
1855.05.04 - diary opens; gardeners fence + plant the vegetable garden ⟨289⟩
1855.05.?? - first trial of the "exchange" (weekly labour assignment, modeled on the
             North American Phalanx); held only "for form's sake" — too few hands ⟨283–284⟩
1855.05.14 - 11 days in; building slows (French/Belgian carpenters careful but slow);
             plank bunk-beds built into the great house; Pastor Allen (Pietist, Ohio)
             visiting; news that Considerant is in Washington (saw the US President),
             heading to New York where his wife, Mme Vigoureux, and Mme Cantagrel have
             arrived; Savardan left Le Havre ~a month earlier with 75 ⟨283–288⟩
1855.06.05 - 2nd house up, 3rd nearly done; council resolves to build smaller houses
             (house families separately, avoid "communism in private life") ⟨288–289⟩
1855.06.~17 - Considerant arrives ("a few days ago" per the 20 June entry) with his
             wife, Mme Vigoureux, Mme Cantagrel, two exiled ex-deputies, and several
             Paris/Brussels editors; 4 little houses built in the prior fortnight ⟨290⟩
1855.07.10 - word from Corsicana: Savardan "in five or six days"; ten penniless French
             émigrés reach Dallas wanting an Icaria-model colony (Wolski helps them) ⟨295–297⟩
1855.07.~17 - Savardan arrives ("three days ago" per the 20 July entry) with 75, many
             of them wives; tailor Maget (ex-Icaria) has sown discord en route ⟨298–300⟩
1855.08.15 - many sick; Vezian (ex-lieutenant, 25) and Ruppert (Swiss, ex-Paris editor)
             die; the spring runs dry; merchant Gold low on salt and sugar ⟨300–301⟩
1855.09.01 - 6 more dead in 15 days; Dallas doctors examine, fearing an epidemic, and
             tell the European doctors to treat more aggressively; no salt/sugar ⟨302⟩
1855.10.01 - mortality eases (2 deaths vs. 8 of ~130 in August); malcontents leave for
             Dallas and open an inn; Considerant holds off buying more sections; César
             Daly (editor, *Revue d'architecture*, came to direct the buildings) leaves
             for Panama; shareholders begin arriving to recover capital in kind ⟨303–304⟩
1855.11.01 - Belgian shareholder Leguay demands his 10,000 fr back in kind (land, oxen,
             horses) per the statutes, buys sections, hires Belgian colonists as wage
             labour; Bürkli's Swiss arrive into general disintegration; Cantagrel plans
             to return to Belgium; Considerant has bought several thousand acres near
             Austin at 25¢/acre to move the survivors; Cousin to stay and hand land back
             to shareholders ⟨304–306⟩
1855.11.15 - Bussy and Wolski leave the colony ⟨306⟩

Specific items (figures, names, mechanisms)

• The seller — "Colonel Johnson." Bought Mexican-War land warrants (1846) off returning soldiers passing through Dallas at ¾–1 dollar per morg; cut his holdings into 600-acre sections, each with a hut (built for $250–300 with enslaved labour) and 20 fenced acres; resold at $3–5/acre = $1,800–3,000 per section ⟨278–279⟩.
• Cantagrel's founding purchase. Two adjoining sections 3 km from Dallas — one at $3/acre, the better (cedar forest, Trinity through it) at $5/acre. 1,200 morgs = $4,800 ≈ 25,000 francs ⟨279⟩.
• Share redemption in kind — the dissolution mechanism, witnessed live. Per the statutes, shareholders came to recover their capital as land/livestock/buildings: Leguay, 10,000 fr (Belgium); "several considerable shareholders" likewise ⟨304–305⟩. This is the SCEAT's reimbursement clause (cf. statutes Art. 48) in action.
• Considerant's Austin-area purchase — several thousand acres at 25¢/acre on a perennial river, bought to relocate the survivors ⟨305⟩. (Seed of the second-site plan.)
• The Houston relay garden — bought for the colony; Cousin and Wolski planted European tree-seedlings there; Bürkli's Swiss lodged in it on landing ⟨291, 302⟩.
• Mme Considerant — dowry of 2 million francs (Jura forge-owner's daughter); cooked on the trail; kept a "cedar salon" at the colony ⟨291–294⟩.
• Scale/mortality — colony ~130 persons in August 1855; 8 deaths that month ⟨303⟩.

Reconciliation with TIMELINE.md

• Resolves the Savardan-arrival conflict. TIMELINE flags 1855.06.16 vs 07.17. Wolski's 20 July entry ("three days ago … Savardan") puts it at ~17 July 1855, agreeing with Cordillot (who explicitly corrects to mid-July, "et non le 15 juin"). → favour 1855.07.17; the 06.16 in Naufrage looks like Savardan's own misdating.
• Corroborates Cantagrel's Dallas arrival ~Dec 1854 ("five months earlier"), and the Cousin/Wolski arrival 1855.05.03 (already in TIMELINE).
• Considerant's arrival: Wolski implies ~17 June ("a few days ago" on 20 June); TIMELINE currently has 1855.06.15 (from new_light.pdf). Close — note the spread.

Names

Wolski — colonist references

Every reference Kalikst Wolski makes to a La Reunion colonist (named individuals and collective/unnamed groups), extracted verbatim from the source. Organized by arrival cohort (Wolski is an eyewitness to the founding party and the collapse, May–Nov 1855, so his roster maps onto the arrival waves).

Source: Kalikst Wolski, Do Ameryki i w Ameryce (Lwów, 1876), chs XXI, XXIII–XXVI. Quotes from the English translation doc/text/books/1800/wolski/reunion_excerpt/english_clean.md (Polish: polish_clean.md). Locators are the printed book-page numbers carried inline in the transcription, e.g. ⟨285⟩; chapter given where useful.

Caveat (see dossier.md): Wolski is the colony's interpreter and Dallas agent — an unusually well-placed but low-stake witness, not management or shareholder. First-hand May–Nov 1855; absent after ~15 Nov 1855, so he sees the start of the corporate unwind, not its end. Separate his reportage from the 1876 literary set-pieces (Chateaubriand, the rattlesnake-"magnetism" tales, the "cedar salon").

Spelling variants worth logging (identity resolution):

• "Birqui" = Karl Bürkli → [[burkli]]
• "Dailly" = César Daly
• "Maszke" (the yellow-fever doctor) is not a colonist — see excluded list.

Leadership / founders

Victor Considerant — founder

Resolves to [[considerant-du-texas]]. Wolski is notably generous to his ability.

• ⟨277⟩ "Considerant's plan was: first, to establish several — later a dozen-odd — agricultural associations around himself, on the model of the North America Phalanx… and then, in the future, in 6, 8, or 10 years… to form one, two, or three Phalansteries on a grand scale… Associations of labor, talent, and capital." (the staged plan)
• ⟨277⟩ "despite a leader of remarkable ability… the attempt did not succeed."
• ⟨287⟩ "Considerant wrote from Washington, where he had gone to pay a visit to the President of the United States, that he is leaving for New York, where his wife, her mother Mme Vigoureux, and Cantagrel's wife have already arrived from Europe."
• ⟨290⟩ "June 20. A few days ago Considerant arrived with his wife, his wife's mother, and Mme Cantagrel, in the company of two ex-members of the French legislative chamber… and several editors of various Paris and Brussels papers… In one [house], then, Considerant settled with his family."
• ⟨295⟩ (the "wise men's errors" passage) "Considerant, in choosing this place to found the future agricultural colonies, did not weigh all the adversities…"
• ⟨299⟩ "Considerant and the colony council declared to Mr. Maget that they could not listen to complaints against a man in whom the Paris and Brussels committee had placed its trust."
• ⟨303⟩ "Considerant intended at this time to buy a dozen or more sections… but on account of the countless adversities and discord he held back."
• ⟨305⟩ "Considerant, on one of his excursions to Austin… bought very cheaply — at 25 cents an acre — several thousand acres in the southern parts of the state… intends to go there with the survivors of our colony. The largest river in Texas (and this one never dries up) passes through the middle of the purchased land."

François Cantagrel — advance agent, "commander-in-chief"

The man on the ground who chose and bought the site and built Réunion.

• ⟨276–277⟩ "the place where Cantagrel had already begun to build the second house, and which he had named Réunion. For this place… was to be the gathering point for all the colonists and the capital of all the settlements."
• ⟨277⟩ "Cantagrel had come from Belgium to Dallas five months earlier. Supplied with the funds needed to purchase land, and holding authorization from the committee of the colonization company formed in Brussels, he set about zealously finding the most suitable site."
• ⟨277, footnote⟩ "Cantagrel, formerly a representative of the nation in the French legislative chamber in 1850, is today one of the most influential members of the Paris municipal council."
• ⟨278⟩ "Cantagrel, like most Frenchmen, knew no foreign language… learned the whole of Ollendorff's method by heart… but he was badly mistaken: few could make out anything of his English."
• ⟨279⟩ "Cantagrel entered into dealings with him [Colonel Johnson] and, choosing two adjoining sections situated 3 kilometers from Dallas, bought one at 3 dollars per acre, and the other… he paid 5 dollars for. Altogether… 1,200 morgs cost 4,800 dollars (about 25,000 francs)." (the founding land purchase)
• ⟨279–280⟩ "In the little house of this riverside section Cantagrel and Roger set up headquarters, bought several yoke of oxen, and… set about hauling timber from the forest and building."
• ⟨281⟩ "Cantagrel rode up to us on horseback and we greeted one another warmly."
• ⟨282⟩ "Cantagrel might have done better to put up a dozen or so little houses… and so we would have avoided even this merely temporary communism." (Wolski's criticism)
• ⟨282⟩ "Cantagrel, who disposed of everything as commander-in-chief, had to remain with the main army in the great house."
• ⟨285⟩ "Cantagrel, as leader up to now, is exempt from all other occupation."
• ⟨290⟩ "in a second [house] Cantagrel with his wife and small child."
• ⟨305⟩ "Cantagrel is thinking of returning to Belgium."

First party (arrived Réunion 3 May 1855; led by Wolski & Cousin)

Kalikst Wolski — the author (self-references)

Interpreter and the colony's agent in Dallas; co-led the first party.

• ⟨251⟩ "Cousin and I rode out on the ponies the first day."
• ⟨285⟩ "having assumed the role of interpreter already at New Orleans and along the road, I am henceforth assigned to settling the colony's affairs in the town of Dallas, where no one speaks French; so I spend several hours there daily."
• ⟨300–301⟩ "Of the first colonists, whom Cousin and I led to the place, all are still in good health."
• ⟨302⟩ bought (with Cousin) the Houston little-house-with-garden for the tree-seedlings; ⟨305⟩ leaves the colony with Bussy ~15 Nov.

Cousin — co-leader of the first party

(Vincent Cousin; cf. [[savardan]] index.) Wolski's closest companion.

• ⟨270⟩ "Mr. Cousin and I mounted the ponies, made for the pretty little house, and entered."
• ⟨280–281⟩ "Cousin rode ahead, while I stayed with the others by the wagons."
• ⟨282⟩ "Cousin and Roger wished to be with me" (in the valley little house).
• ⟨284⟩ "Cousin and Roger, being fit neither for carpentry nor for farming, undertook to wait at table."
• ⟨302⟩ "the little house with a garden that Cousin and I bought there" at Houston.
• ⟨305–306⟩ "Cousin will remain on the spot to hand over to the shareholders the land, livestock, and buildings."

Roger — medical student, University of Brussels

Came to America with Cantagrel; the colony's nominal doctor in this period.

• ⟨256⟩ "the young medical student from Brussels, who had come first to Texas with Cantagrel, sprang to her, seized her finger by force, sucked out the venom… and applied ammonia." (the snakebite rescue)
• ⟨257⟩ "the deed of the young academician Roger, sacrificing himself to preserve a fellow creature's life."
• ⟨278⟩ "he was accompanied by Roger, a medical student of the University of Brussels… knowing German well and being younger — soon spoke the language needed there tolerably well."
• ⟨279–280⟩ shared the riverside headquarters with Cantagrel.
• ⟨284–285⟩ "Roger, though something of a doctor, has nothing to do in his line, for all of us, thank God, are healthy"; waited at table with Cousin.

Considerant's family party (arrived ~20 June 1855)

Mme (Julie) Considerant — the founder's wife

The only real portrait of a woman at the colony (fills the women gap). Whole of chapter XXV; the "cedar salon."

• ⟨291⟩ "The daughter of a wealthy owner of forges in the Jura mountains, when she married she received from her father two million francs as dowry."
• ⟨292–293⟩ renounced Parisian boudoir life for "one ennobled by work."
• ⟨293⟩ "Madame Considerant was the most diligent cook, and with her own delicate hands set the kettles to the fire."
• ⟨293–294⟩ "This place [the cedar grove] Madame Considerant turned into a kind of salon, and here she received all the colonists who wished… to refresh themselves with engaging conversation." (the cedar salon set-piece)

Mme Vigoureux — Considerant's mother-in-law

(Clarisse Vigoureux.) Named only as the wife's mother.

• ⟨287⟩ "his wife, her mother Mme Vigoureux, and Cantagrel's wife have already arrived from Europe."
• ⟨290⟩ "Considerant arrived with his wife, his wife's mother, and Mme Cantagrel."

Mme Cantagrel — Cantagrel's wife

• ⟨287⟩ arrived from Europe with the Considerant women.
• ⟨290⟩ "Cantagrel with his wife and small child" in their house.

(Also in this party: "two ex-members of the French legislative chamber" in exile and "several editors of various Paris and Brussels papers" — the unnamed "staff of the commander-in-chief"; see Collective.)

Savardan's party (arrived 20 July 1855; ~75 people)

Doctor Auguste Savardan — colony physician, column leader

Resolves to [[savardan]]. Headcount discrepancy to log: Wolski says 75; Beecher (via Savardan) says 43 (dossier).

• ⟨288⟩ "Doctor Savardan, with seventy-five colonists, also left Le Havre a month ago."
• ⟨295⟩ "July 10. In five or six days Savardan and the new settlers will reach the colony."
• ⟨298⟩ "July 20. Three days ago there arrived at last the long-awaited Doctor Savardan with seventy-five people, among them a considerable number of women, colonists' wives — but… discord appeared with their arrival."
• ⟨299⟩ "To put an end to this disorder, Savardan found himself compelled to dismiss Mr. Maget."
• ⟨302⟩ "The tailor Maget incites our colonists against Doctor Savardan, maintaining that he is the cause of these misfortunes by bad treatment."

Maget — tailor; the faction-maker

Joined at New Orleans; ex-Icarian. The named source of the colony's discord.

• ⟨298⟩ "At New Orleans there joined the company led by Savardan a tailor by the name of Maget, who had already left Icaria (the communist colony in the State of Iowa), being unable to get on with his companions… he formed himself a faction criticizing every act of the column's leader."
• ⟨299⟩ "the disturber of the peace had to depart. Enraged, he flew a few days ahead to our colony… and accused of abuse of power Doctor Savardan, as well as the ex-subprefect of Avranches Bussy and the ex-lieutenant from Algiers Vezian."
• ⟨300⟩ "having rented a small booth, he set up a tailor's workshop" in Dallas.
• ⟨302⟩ "The tailor Maget incites our colonists against Doctor Savardan."

Bussy — ex-subprefect of Avranches

"Very enlightened and sensible." Leaves with Wolski at the end.

• ⟨299⟩ "the ex-subprefect of Avranches Bussy… who had rightly reproved him [Maget]."
• ⟨300⟩ "Bussy, the former subprefect, Vezian, the former French officer, and a dozen-odd others who came with Savardan are very enlightened and sensible men."
• ⟨304⟩ "Bussy made of them [wild grapes] a barrel of wine — sour and bitter."
• ⟨305⟩ "Bussy wants to go to New Orleans, where he has a brother, and urges me to set out on the road together."
• ⟨306⟩ "For the past fifteen days Bussy and I have been carefully seeking an opportunity to leave."

Vezian — ex-lieutenant from Algiers — died, age 25

• ⟨299⟩ reproved Maget; ⟨300⟩ "Vezian, the former French officer… very enlightened."
• ⟨300–301⟩ "August 15. … Vezian (the ex-lieutenant), a young man of only 25, fell ill and died."

Ruppert — Swiss-born Paris journalist — died

• ⟨301⟩ "Ruppert, Swiss by birth but long resident in Paris, where he was editor of one of the French papers, also died after a few days' illness."

Swiss party (arrived early Nov 1855; led by Bürkli)

Karl Bürkli ("Birqui")

Resolves to [[burkli]]. Wolski dates the Swiss arrival to ~Nov 1855 — the key reconciliation point against Bürkli's own "July 1855" / "the following month" chronology (see [[burkli]] timeline).

• ⟨288⟩ "a certain Mr. Birqui [Bürkli], a Swiss by origin, is soon to arrive with thirty-odd of his countrymen."
• ⟨302–303⟩ "the Swiss Birqui [Bürkli], who is to bring thirty-five of his countrymen to the colony at the end of next month… He has already landed at Houston and is occupying for the time being the little house with a garden that Cousin and I bought there."
• ⟨305⟩ "The Swiss led by Birqui [Bürkli] arrived a few days ago, and, seeing the general disintegration, one by one seek out colonies for themselves."

Other attached members

César Daly ("Dailly") — buildings director

• ⟨304⟩ "The editor-in-chief of the monthly published in Paris under the title Revue d'architecture, Mr. Dailly [César Daly] — a man of great talents and moreover, body and soul, favorable to Fourier's idea, and a friend of Considerant, who had come here to direct the colony's buildings — left yesterday for Central America, toward the Isthmus of Panama."

Leguay — Belgian shareholder

• ⟨305⟩ "November 1. Mr. Leguay, a considerable shareholder from Belgium, arrived at our colony and demanded the return in kind — that is, in land, oxen, horses, and so on — of the 10,000 francs for which he had taken shares… he moreover bought several sections of land and persuaded the Belgians of our colony to go and work for him, not as partners but as laborers." (the corporate unwind beginning)

Collective / unnamed colonists

• ⟨251⟩ The first convoy: "37 people (that is, 33 of us, for three remained in Houston, and four wagoners)… 20 yoke of oxen drawing four wagons… three Mexican ponies." (three colonists stayed at Houston)
• ⟨251⟩ "several carpenters and farmers with axes at their belts."
• ⟨256⟩ "the wife of one of the carpenters, who did the colonists' laundry, was also bitten" (snakebite, survived).
• ⟨283⟩ The exchange roles: "Apart from two who chose the work of cooking and two who took on serving" (the giełda / labor exchange trial); ⟨284⟩ "Two farmers who… know something of cooking remained as cooks."
• ⟨284⟩ "the French and Belgian carpenters do indeed work more exactly… but they do not hurry."
• ⟨290⟩ Considerant's party staff: "two ex-members of the French legislative chamber who had been in exile under the Second Empire, and several editors of various Paris and Brussels papers" → "the staff of the commander-in-chief."
• ⟨293⟩ "wives of the artisans from France, Belgium, and Switzerland were to come."
• ⟨298, 302⟩ Savardan's party: "seventy-five people, among them a considerable number of women, colonists' wives"; "among the farmers and artisans there are also many decent and industrious ones."
• ⟨303–304⟩ The malcontents' exodus: "Several malcontents with their wives left the colony and went to Dallas, where, having bought a house on credit, they set up an inn in it; many others are preparing to follow them."
• ⟨303⟩ The mortality figures: "October 1. … in the whole past month only two colonists parted with this world… in the month of August, in which, out of 130 persons composing the colony, eight passed into eternity"; ⟨302⟩ "Sept 1. In the last fifteen days six more have died."
• ⟨305⟩ "the Belgians of our colony" persuaded to work as Leguay's laborers.
• ⟨306⟩ "those of the arrived workmen who labored diligently through these six months have been richly rewarded."

Named non-colonists (excluded — recorded so the omission is auditable)

• Pastor Allen (of Ohio, Pietist sect) + his 10-year-old son — a visitor/ observer who came to watch the colony's founding, intending to found one near Cincinnati; a guest at the cedar-salon gatherings, not a colony member. ⟨257, 283–284, 297⟩
• The ten Frenchmen / "Icarians" in Dallas — political émigrés from the Northern States who founded a separate Cabet/Icaria-model colony outside Dallas; Wolski's "protégés," helped via Gold's credit. Colony-adjacent but not La Reunion. ⟨295, 301–302, 304⟩
• Mr. Gold — "the most eminent merchant in Dallas," the colony's supplier; a Dallas-side figure, not a colonist. ⟨285, 297, 301, 306⟩
• Colonel Johnson — US-army colonel and land-warrant speculator who sold the colony its land; not a colonist. ⟨278–279⟩
• "Maszke" — "our countryman, the doctor of medicine," a Pole who came to the Mississippi to study yellow fever and died of it; not a La Reunion colonist. ⟨258⟩
• The Polish settler near Houston — an unnamed countryman Wolski met on the road (8 years in Texas); a Texan settler, not a colonist. ⟨253–254⟩
• Context figures (not colonists): Cabet, Fourier, Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo, Louis Napoleon; the hired American carpenters; the Corsicana judge; Mrs. Newcast (ch. XXII, skipped).