At St. Pierre. 425 



Mr. , a New Yorker belonging to the opposition line, 



killed two white men recently, and shot two others, who 

 were miserable miscreants. 



" We are yet thirty miles below St. Pierre, and do not 

 expect to reach it until to-morrow. Indians were seen 

 along both sides of the river : many trade at this post and 

 at St. Pierre ; at the latter I am told there are five hun- 

 dred lodges. The Indian dogs resemble the wolves so 

 much that I should readily mistake the one for the other 

 were I to meet them in the woods. 



" Soon after leaving Fort George, we sounded and 

 found only three and a half feet of water, and the captain 

 gave orders to ' tie up,' and we started on a walk for St. 

 Pierre. On reaching the camp, we found it a strongly- 

 built low log-cabin, in which was a Mr. Cutting, who had 

 met my son Victor in Cuba. Yesterday, while he was 

 on a buffalo-hunt, a cow hooked his horse, and threw him 

 about twenty feet, and injured his ankle. This he 

 thought remarkable, as the cow had not been wounded. 

 He showed me a petrified head of a wolf, which I dis- 

 covered to be not a wolfs but a beaver's. There were 

 fifteen lodges here, and a great number of squaws and 

 half-breed children ; and these are accounted for by the 

 fact that every clerk and agent has his Indian wife as she 

 is called. 



June i. The party had arrived at St. Pierre, and from 

 thence the Omega, in which they had made their trip, was 

 expected to return to St. Louis. The Journal continues : 

 " I am somewhat surprised that Sprague asked me to al- 

 low him to return in the Omega. I told him he was at 

 liberty to do so of course if he desired it, though it will 

 cause me double the labor I expected to have. Had I 

 known this before leaving New York, I could have had 

 any number of young artists, who would have been glad 

 to have accompanied and remained with me to the end of 

 the expedition. 



