same Captain Stuart who had travelled in company with the Lees to the Rocky Mountains m 1834.

Stuart had for a companion a young English gen- tleman and a few servants. Another, not belonging to either the fur company or missionary party, was a o-entleman called Major Pilcher, of St Louis, Indian agent to the Yankton Sioux, whom Parker having met him the year before, calls intelligent and candid, and well disposed toward mission enterprises, but who by his foppish dress excited the remarks ot at least one of the mission party, who perhaps fancied that ne occupied too much of the attention ot the two ladies, whom he was good-naturedly desirous ot amusing. According to Gray, he wore a suit ot fane buckskin trimmed with red cloth and porcupine quills, fine scarlet shirt, and elaborately ornamented moc- casons ; and he must have made a conspicuous figure in any company. Maj or Pilcher was one day showing the ladies some singular salt clay-pits, when going too near the edge it gave way, immersing his fane white mule, himself, and his elegant Indian costume in a bath of sticky liquid clay. It was with difficulty he was extricated, when he joined heartily in the merriment his predicament occasioned.

Vside from the occasional storms to which the travellers were exposed, and the meat diet to which in a short time all were restricted, a summer s journey under the protection of so varied a company was most interesting to the two untravelled women from central New York. Fifty years at Pittsburg, or at the Osage Mission, would not have afforded the oppor- tunities for expansion of thought, or the accumula-

»From the frequent mention made of "m by traveUe^ Stuart seems to hive haunted the Rooky Mountains for more than ten years. Gray asserts ^at lc ^s 'Sir Willia.n Drummond, K. B., who had come to the United

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man, one of whom was Mr *ield ot tne - v - .^-/ '"'j l ". 1<m i iee „ f or Captain Stuart, 'an English half-pay officer, who had ^then in 1834, been tor time roaming the mountains. Lee and h rod H Oi ., M-