volume xxi, p. 138, note 13. The deputies apparently arrived in the

autumn of 1831 and passed the winter in or near the city, where two of their number died. See Chittenden and Richardson, _De Smet_, i, pp. 21, 22.--ED.

[185] Both the second and third embassies were headed by the Iroquois Indian known as "Old Ignace," otherwise Ignace la Mousse, who was educated at the mission of Caughnawaga, and had gone to the Rocky Mountains between 1812 and 1820. The Iroquois were much employed by the North West Company and later by the Hudson's Bay Company, to assist fur-trading parties in the Far West. Ignace settled among the Flatheads, where he married, and taught the tribe the rudiments of the religion he had learned at the Canadian mission. Townsend (see our