. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. idly traveling vestibuledtrains of many railroads bear thousands of passengers in and outinstead of the slow-going but pleasant river steamers of those late as 1839 the Indians interred their dead at a favorite point onPlatte river near St. Joseph by wrapping the bodies in buffalo robes andskins and lashing them upon pole scaffolds twelve or fifteen feet high, butnow in the citys cemetery stands sacredly beautiful and grand mauso-leums and monuments, of precious granites and marbles, notably that ofcongressman James N. Burnes,
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. idly traveling vestibuledtrains of many railroads bear thousands of passengers in and outinstead of the slow-going but pleasant river steamers of those late as 1839 the Indians interred their dead at a favorite point onPlatte river near St. Joseph by wrapping the bodies in buffalo robes andskins and lashing them upon pole scaffolds twelve or fifteen feet high, butnow in the citys cemetery stands sacredly beautiful and grand mauso-leums and monuments, of precious granites and marbles, notably that ofcongressman James N. Burnes, truly one of Missouris heroes, who was afew years since suddenly stricken down in the prime of his manhood,while at his post of duty in the nations service at Washington. Who,standing upon the Blacksnake hills—St. Josephs oldest named object—looking over the city spread around him and reflecting upon thechanges since Robidoux first decided to occupy the citys site, canprophesy the changes of the future in the same length of time ? Kingston, RIGHT REVEREND SAMUEL PROVOOST, , 1742-1815 FIRST BISHOP OF NEW YORK, 1787-1801 The English nation has ever had an eye to the spiritual as well as tothe material interests of her colonies. In the numerous voyages of discov-ery, when the Crown first began to reach out for further territory, it wasdeemed quite as important that a duly qualified minister of religion shouldbe numbered among the adventurers as a physician to administer to theirbodily needs. And in this holy purpose royalty itself became earlyenlisted. Six years after the discovery of America, in the expeditionwhich started from England for Newfoundland, Henry VII. contributedlargely out of his private means for the maintenance of a priest who mightminister to the spiritual necessities of the travelers. When the expedi-tion in 1553, under Sir Hugh Willoughby, sailed for the discovery of thenorthern passage to Cathay, Master Richard Stafford was appointed min-ist
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