180 THE STORY OF THE TRAPPER 



small-type foot-note to his book published in London 

 in 1817. 



Two other adventures are on record similar to Col 

 ter s: one of Oskononton s escape by diving under a 

 raft, told in Boss s Fur Hunters; the other of a poor 

 Indian fleeing up the Ottawa from pursuing Iroquois of 

 the Five Nations and diving under the broken bottom 

 of an old beaver-dam, told in the original Jesuit Rela 

 tions. 



And yet when the Astorians went up the Missouri 

 a few years later, Colter could scarcely resist the im 

 pulse to go a fourth time to the wilds. But fascina 

 tions stronger than the wooings of the wilds had come 

 to his life he had taken to himself a bride. 



