With them came also a white man, who announced himself as a messenger bearing missives for Mr.Hunt.In fact he brought a letter from Mr.Manuel Lisa, partner and agent of the Missouri Fur Company.

As has already been mentioned, this gentleman was going in search of Mr.Henry and his party, who had been dislodged from the forks of the Missouri by the Blackfeet Indians, and had shifted his post somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains.

Mr.Lisa had left St.Louis three weeks after Mr.Hunt, and having heard of the hostile intentions of the Sioux, had made the greatest exertions to overtake him, that they might pass through the dangerous part of the river together.

He had twenty stout oarsmen in his service and they plied their oars so vigorously, that he had reached the Omaha village just four days after the departure of Mr.
Hunt.

From this place he despatched the messenger in question, trusting to his overtaking the barges as they toiled up against the stream, and were delayed by the windings of the river.