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as the apprentices, had t i 
} 8, o quit. F. was the last to 1 i i 
finally Fad the spring of 1838 the shop was shut up altemett sone meme ty 
ving made up his mind to go to St. Louis, Missouri, the then “Far 
Louis. The whole j ana 
i journey from New York to St. Louis required thirty d 
and at the most economical rate, by taking deck-passage on the pean could 
‘0 ) 
SW d, but gett dissat' h th 
and th goo getting dissatis the poor tools 
ted ne d room he work in at the approach of icine, he di- 
about Chri “Mega towards the sunny South, and resolved to | St 
stmas tim 38. Il the river steamers were ice-bound, he 
nd crossing the Miss 
thinly settled forests o 
ron . : ° 
reqni ete chp atm it, but in order to have it selected and surveyed 
ieee ell armed, to join the surveyors, in order to stren then their party 
it Yy premeditated attack from the wild Comanches who, it wa 
Hi Ps fh . . 4 
is stay of twelve months in Texas was full of ee un Having 
aha : A 
to Houston, just in 
ights of the un- 
r months in 
country, nearly 
where for some 
Ver, F, 
ime te eturned to the nearest settlement, and subsequently 
the fiunee- Vage e€ fev 
empty in and fall of 1839. At last, dissatisfied with the 
time he — 8 and broken down in health, he left for Illinois, 
Autu : school. - 
: reaenect mn in North erica, and especially in the Western States, always 
In 1841, wh ’s mi any other part of the year. Hence 
ited.with uum wi o scatter the falling forest leaves, he was 
Uated on th ne 
Here he dt recy of the Missouri river, three 
Wolfs Ilana that an uninhabited island, two and ¢ 
, Not very far below the village, was at his service. 
