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progress of the late expedition into tlicir country: and also "of 

 the prevalence, from time to time, of tlic smallpox" among them. 



The accompanying tabic will serve to illustrate the " ages, sex, 

 tribe, and local situation" of those Indians who have been vacci- 

 nated by me. With the view of illustrating more fully their local 

 situation, I have arranged those bands residing upon the shores 

 of Lake Superior; those residing in the Folle Avoine country 

 (or that section of country lying between the highlands southwest 

 from Lake Superior, and the Mississippi Eiver) ; and those resid- 

 ing near the sources of the Mississippi Eiver, separately. 



Nearly all the Indians noticed in this table were vaccinated at 

 their respective villages; yet I did not fail to vaccinate those 

 whom we chanced to meet in their hunting or other excursions. 



I have embraced, with the Indians of the frontier bands, those 

 half-breeds, who, in consequence of having adopted more or less 

 the habits of the Indian, may be identified with him. 



But little difiiculty has occurred in convincing the Indians of 

 the efficacy of vaccination ; and the universal dread in which thev 

 hold the appearance of the smallpox among them, rendered it an 

 easy task to overcome their prejudices, whatever they chanced to 

 be. The efficacy of the vaccine disease is well appreciated, even 

 by the most interior of the Chippewa Indians; and so universal is 

 this information, that only one instance occurred where the Indian 

 had never heard of the disease. 



In nearly every instance the opportunity which was presented 

 for vaccination, was embraced with cheerfulness and apparent 

 gratitude ; at the same time manifesting great anxiety that, for 

 the safety of the whole, each one of the band should undergo the 

 operation. "When objections were made to vaccination, they were 

 not usually made because the Indian doubted the protective power 

 of the disease, but because he supposed (never having seen its 

 progress), that the remedy must nearly equal the disease which it 

 was intended to counteract. 



Our situation, while travelling, did not allow me sufficient time 

 to test the result of the vaccination in most instances ; but an oc- 

 casional return to bands where the operation had been performed, 

 enabled me, in those bands, either to note the progress of the dis- 

 ease, or to judge from the cicatrices marking the original situa- 

 tion of the pustules, the cases in which the disease had proved 

 successful. 



