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 English farmer, late of Chatteris-ferry in the Isle of Ely. This gentleman died shortly afterwards, a victim to the climate.

Mr. Birkbeck says the Missouri territory partakes of an European character, in some respects, and is preferred by some English families on account of slavery, or rather the facility of getting labour and servants. Colonel Boon now lives thirty miles only from St. Louis, and in that flourishing town, Clark, the celebrated traveller up the Missouri river, lives, and has a museum.[88] {282} Colonel Boon and his party, being without bread for six months, used wild turkey to their meat as a substitute.