may repay his generosity and kindness a hundredfold in blessings of time and eternity. We are still in want of a great many useful and important articles - indeed, of an absolute necessity in the establishing of this new mission. I am confident, many friends of the poor Indians may be found in the United States, who will most willingly contribute their mite in such a charitable undertaking-we will be most grateful to them, and our good neophytes, in whose behalf I make the appeal, will not cease to pray for their kind benefactors.
" Please make arrangements with the American Fur Company to have goods brought up by the Missouri river to Fort Benton, whence I could get them conveyed in wagons across the mountains to the missionary station.
"The Right Reverend Magloire Blanchet, Bishop of N'isqually, who in his first visit to the Mission of St. Ignatius near Lake De Boey, confirmed over Goo Indians, although he arrived unexpectedly, when a great many families had gone to their hunting grounds, among the Kalispels and our neighboring missions, intended to give confirmation here this summer. I was very desirous of the arrival of this pious prelate, who has done so much good, by his fervent exhortations, to strengthen our neophytes in the faith. It had already been agreed upon that a party of Indians should go to meet him as far as the village of the Sacred Heart, among the Cceur d'Alenes, about 200 miles from St. Ignatius' Mission, when our plans were broken up by a message from Governor Stevens, summoning all our Indians to a council to be held some thirty miles off, in St. Mary's or Bitter Root valley, at a place called Hellgate, whence a number of chiefs and warriors were to accompany him to a Grand Council of Peace among the Blackfeet. I was absent on a visit to our brethren among the Cceur d'Alenes, the Skoyelpis, and other tribes, when I received an invitation from the Governor to be present at the coun cils. I had found, in my visit, all our missions rich in good works and conversions, though very poor in the goods of