Note 186 — {231} CHAPTER XIV

This is the son of old Pierre Dorion, who makes such a conspicuous figure in Irving's "Astoria."—Townsend.

Comment by Ed. Consult Bradbury's Travels in our volume v, p. 38, note 7; also Ross's Oregon Settlers, our volume vii, pp. 265-269, wherein the murder of the elder Dorion and the escape of his wife and children are related.