CHAPTER XV.
Opposition of the Missouri Fur Company.-Blackfeet Indians .-- Pierre Dorion, a Half-Breed Interpreter .-- Old Dorion and His Hybrid Progeny--Family Quarrels .-- Cross Purposes Between Dorion and Lisa .-- Renegadoes From Nodowa .-- Perplexities of a Commander .-- Messrs.

Bradbury and Nuttall Join the Expedition.-Legal Embarrassments of Pierre Dorion .-- Departure From St.Louis .-- Conjugal Discipline of a Half- Breed .-- Annual Swelling of the Rivers.-Daniel Boone, the Patriarch of Kentucky.-John Colter.-His Adventures Among the Indians.-Rumors of Danger Ahead.-Fort Osage.-An Indian War- Feast.-Troubles in the Dorion Family .-- Buffaloes and Turkey- Buzzards.
ON this his second visit to St.Louis, Mr.Hunt was again impeded in his plans by the opposition of the Missouri Fur Company.

The affairs of that company were, at this time, in a very dubious state.

During the preceding year, their principal establishment at the forks of the Missouri had been so much harassed by the Blackfeet Indians, that its commander, Mr.Henry, one of the partners, had been compelled to abandon the post and cross the Rocky Mountains, with the intention of fixing himself upon one of the upper branches of the Columbia.

What had become of him and his party was unknown.