Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Letter XXI. ; To The Editor Of The Precis Historiques, Brussels. Oregon Missions. University Of St. Louis, July 16, 1857. Reverend Father: Since my return to St. Louis I have been very busy, and not very well, in consequence of the sudden transition from a cold climate to one where the thermometer stands at 90 Fahrenheit. I have not been able, thus far, to send you any interesting article. I have lately received a long and beautiful letter from Father A. Hoeken, in the Rocky Mountains. It appeared, on the llth instant, in the Freeman's Journal, which you receive regularly. I shall try and send you a translation. I inclose to-day a short notice of Father Eysvogels. If you give it a place in your Precis, it will give pleasure to the friends and acquaintances of that good Father in North Brabant. As you propose terminating a volume of my letters, you would do well, perhaps, to add, if there is time, a letter to the St. Louis Leader, dated June 19, 1855, which you can have translated. St. Louis, June 19,1855. Mr. Editor : From a letter received from the Rocky Mountains about two months ago, I learn that the Indians, in our different missions in Oregon, continue to give great satisfaction totheir missionaries, by their zeal and fervor in the holy practices of religion. "I hope," writes Father Joset, "that the holy Sacrament of Confirmation, which many have lately received, will add still more stability to their good resohi- tions. The arrival of Monseigneur Blanchet, of Nesqualy, had been announced only a few hours before, yet, notwithstanding that one half of the neophytes were absent on their hunting-grounds, the zealous prelate gave confirmation to over six hundred persons. He expressed the greatest satisfaction at the flourishing condition of the missions, a... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.