Three years among the Indians and Mexicans . llagewas near by, and that Chouteau,^° Tonish,^^ andPelche,^^ French traders, were with them. I started 1 For biographical sketch of Auguste Pierre Chouteau, see Appen-dix. ^1 Tonish is Antoine de Hatre of Florissant. He was with Wash-ington Irving on his Tour of the Prairies, and his grand-daughter,now living in Florissant, says that Mr. Irving did him a greatwrong in writing about him as he did. Latrobe, who was Irvingscompanion on the Tour, says of Tonish,—Light, alive, in theprime of life, no horse could take him by surprise; no inclined planeco
Three years among the Indians and Mexicans . llagewas near by, and that Chouteau,^° Tonish,^^ andPelche,^^ French traders, were with them. I started 1 For biographical sketch of Auguste Pierre Chouteau, see Appen-dix. ^1 Tonish is Antoine de Hatre of Florissant. He was with Wash-ington Irving on his Tour of the Prairies, and his grand-daughter,now living in Florissant, says that Mr. Irving did him a greatwrong in writing about him as he did. Latrobe, who was Irvingscompanion on the Tour, says of Tonish,—Light, alive, in theprime of life, no horse could take him by surprise; no inclined planecould throw him off his balance. He was a man of no mean quali-fications, full of makeshifts, and unspeakably useful in the woods;they were his home. The Rambler in North America. His grand-father, Louis de Hetre, came to St. Louis from Cahokia in 1764. 12 Pelche must be the same person whom Lieut. Abert calls Pilka,an old voyageur. He says of him: He was one of those hardymen who had become inured to all kinds of difficulty in the service. ^. ^. Jit^H?^m^ Courtesy of John F. McDermott. Esq. [l822] 177 with the Indian for the village and came in view of iton ascending a hill a short way from the camp, wheremy companion went off at full speed, shouting at thetop of his voice, and soon brought out the whole vil-lage with Chouteau and other French traders tomeet me. A large company of Indians passed meto meet the company with the horses behind, and bytheir shouts and tumultuous riding gave my drove astampede which made the earth shake beneath invited me to breakfast with him, assur-ing me that my horses, which were now out of sight,would be recovered. I partook with him of a dishof coffee, the first I had tasted in twelve months, andof bread and other luxuries of civilization, whichbrought before my mind all the comforts of hometo which I had been so long a stranger. After re-turning from Chouteaus marquee, about noon, wediscovered that four horses and several artic
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