While he failed not to receive kindness and hospitality from the noble hearted Missourians, nevertheless he had fully allayed his curiosity and, as soon as possible, he bade adieu to these unpleasant recollections.
"He bent his steps towards St.Louis.In this city he remained ten days.
As it was the first time, since he had reached manhood, that he had viewed a town of any magnitude, he was greatly interested.

But ten days of sight-seeing wearied him.

He resolved to return to his mountain home, where he could breathe the pure air of Heaven and where manners and customs conformed to his wild life and were more congenial to his tastes.
He engaged a passage on the first steamboat which was bound up the Missouri river." Kit Carson was instinctively a student.

In whatever situation he was placed he was ever endeavoring to learn something new.

He was also always drawn, by constitutional taste and preference towards men of culture, and high moral worth.