teenth time) and reached Liverpool July 14th -There is no available record to show just what Father De Smet's travels in Europe were in 1871, but they must have been extensive. There may also have been some short trips in the United States.
The total distance traveled for the year mounts up to 10,150 miles.
1872.
Father De Smet embarked for America on the City of Paris April 11th -Arrived in New York April 2ISt (nineteenth crossing)- Went to St. Louis and remained there the rest of the year.
Distance traveled, 4,800 miles.
1873.
Father De Smet remained in St. Louis until the date of his death, May 23d, when his remains were taken to the Jesuit Novitiate at Florissant and there interred. (2)
(2) Father De Smet crossed the Atlantic nineteen times instead of twenty-one as the Linton Album records it. Add to this number two Atlantic voyages between New York and Panama and three on the Pacific (one between Cape Horn and the Columbia and two between Panama and the Columbia) makes twenty-four long ocean voyages.
The foregoing itineraries are based primarily upon two records : One in letter-book form comes down to 1853, and the other in the Linton Album comes down to 1872 with a few obscure places. The distances in the Indian country are all greatly overstated, although they were the received distances until actual surveys were made.
There is an important error in both records for the years 1868 and 1869 in the omission of 5,200 miles travel before starting to Europe in 1868.