250 MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 



me this note in response to a question: "I can give you 

 but little information about Antoine Gardapee, the 

 French trapper you went North with the winter you 

 write about. I remember you both very well, and the 

 fact of your going up on the Bad Ax the year before 

 Tom Davies, and you went with the surveying party 

 when Henry Neaville froze his feet; but I can't recall 

 what became of Gardapee further than this: He ran a 

 private ferry on the Mississippi River from Cassville, 

 Wis., to the mouth of Turkey River, la., some years after 

 you left Potosi. The generation in which he lived has 

 passed away the trapper, hunter and Indian have gone 

 to the happy hunting grounds, and have left scarce a 

 trace behind them; their names, places, kindred and 

 friends are alike forgotten, and the pall of oblivion hangs 

 over their resting-place." 



There seems to be nothing to be added .to the very 

 good obituary note of Judge Seaton. 



