morrow have an occasion to discharge their Paschal duty, and that the holy sacrifice of the altar would be offered to their intention. He treated me with the utmost kindness and benevolence and showed great thankfulness for the spiritual benefactions received for the first time in his house on the great day of Easter.
We crossed the Little Sioux in a small skiff or rather ferry. The bottoms were still flooded for a good mile in
width. We rented another wagon to take us to Correctionville, which 'has yet but a single dwelling, that of a good
old Irishman, his wife and six children. This place is twenty-two miles from the Little Sioux. We spent a good
night here. The family was eager for instruction and all my conversation with them was upon various religious points. The father of the family already had in mind the erection of a church at Correctionville as soon as ten or so of his countrymen shall have settled there.
April 22d, the Irishman brought us to Sioux City, twentyseven miles, in his wagon. All the intervening distance consists of rolling elevated plains, with a fertile soil, rich in grasses, where innumerable herds of domestic animals would find ample pasturage. Deer and elk still range here
in good numbers. All this region resembles an agitated sea, suddenly become motionless. Day after day, it is al ways the same monotony. You go up and down an interminable succession of larger or smaller hills and valleys; like terrestrial billows. A, fringe of timber can be seen along the streams and in some deep valleys and ravines in the higher portions.
In summer this region is an ocean of verdure, adorned with flowers, always agreeable to the eye. In autumn fires run over it and cover the whole surface with the sad black tint of mourning. Then comes winter and extends its shroud over all nature. At present winter is just drawing
to a close in these parts. The snow is melting and disappearing rapidly. In severe seasons it lies two to four feet deep over all the country. Numerous drifts and patches