CHAPTER II.
LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT MISSIONARIES.1
Adventures of a missionary-Sufferings and danger -A Dakota blizzard - Charles Larpenteur - Needs of the Sioux -Iowa in 1851Dangers of delay.
The Sioux.
To the Editor o f the PrecU Historiques, Brussels:'
Paris, November 17, 1856.
Reverend and Dear Father:
FIND with pleasure in your number of the 15th inst., the interesting letter of Father Adrian Hoeken, written to me from the Flathead camp, which I sent you from St. Louis before I started for Belgium.
Herewith are four letters of his brother, Father Christian Hoeken, which will, I think, be found as interesting as Father Adrian's. In a few days I shall see you at Brussels.
First Letter o f Father Christian Hoeken to Father De Smet.
Sioux Country, Fort Vermilion, Dec. I I, 1850.
Reverend and Dear Father:
You have doubtless learned by Father Duerinck's letters that I set out last June for the Sioux country. The season was quite favorable when I left Kansas, but I had a pretty cold time as I crossed Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota till I got to the post of the American Fur Com
1 From Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 263