persons. Monseigneur Ravoux, who visited some tribes of Sioux in 1847, and penetrated as far as Fort Pierre, was listened to everywhere with a consoling eagerness, and bap tized a great many children. In my late tour among the Sioux, the Poncas, etc., I baptized more than 300 children and several adults.
From all these facts, may we not conclude, with sufficient certainty, that these poor souls seem ripe for a more peaceable life, and for a blessed eternity?
I have the honor to be, etc.
Reverend and Dear Father?
I send you a copy of a letter that I addressed to Mrs. P [armentier], a Belgian lady, residing at Brooklyn, near New York. She is a great benefactress of the missions. My letter contains some details concerning my recent visit to the Potawatomies, on the present very critical state of those Indians, and of all the nations and Indian tribes in the two new Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
What I wrote to you in December, 1851, and you published in the Precis His#oriques, of 1853, pages 398, etc., has been literally verified. A great number of towns and villages have sprung up in it as if by enchantment. The principal towns of Kansas are: Wyandot, Delaware, Douglas, Marysville, Iola, Atchison, Fort Scott, Pawnee, Lecompton, Neosho, Richmond, Tecumseh, Lavinia, Lawrence, Port William, Doniphan, Paolo, Alexandria, Indianola, Easton, Leavenworth, and many others. They differ in population and improvements. Lawrence and Leavenworth are the most considerable. This latter, which
2 Letter addressed to the editor Precis Historiques, Brussels, dated University of St. Louis, February 26, 1858. Forms Letter XLV, Second Series, Cinquante Nouvelles Lettres, and XXVII, Second Series, Western Missions and Missionaries. The latter text is here followed.