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vaccinated with those two crusts, have been vaccinated, and 

 passed regularly though the vaccine disease. 



The answers to ray repeated inquiries respecting the intro- 

 duction, progress, and fatality of the smallpox, would lead me to 

 infer that the disease has made its appearance at least five times, 

 among the bands of Chippewa Indians noticed in the accompany- 

 ing table of vaccination. 



The smallpox appears to have been wholly unknown to the 

 Chippewas of Lake Superior until about 1750 ; when a war-party, 

 of more than one hundred young men, from the bands resident 

 near the head of the lake, having visited Montreal for the purpose 

 of assisting the French in their then existing troubles with the 

 English, became infected with the disease, and but few of the 

 party survived to reach their homes. It does not appear, although 

 they made a precipitate retreat to their own country, that the 

 disease was at this time communicated to any others of the tribe. 



About the year 1770, the disease appeared a second time 

 among the Chippewas, but, unlike that which preceded it, it was 

 communicated to the more northern bands. 



Tlie circumstances connected with its introduction are related 

 nearly as follows : — 



Some time in the fall of 1767 or 8, a trader who had ascended 

 the Mississippi, and established himself near Leech Lake, was 

 robbed of his goods by the Indians residing at that lake ; and, 

 in consequence of his exertions in defending his property, he died 

 soon after. 



These facts became known to the directors of the Fur Com- 

 pany, at Mackinac; and, each successive year after, requests were 

 sent to the Leech Lake Indians, that they should visit Mackinac, 

 and make reparation for the goods they had taken, by a payment 

 of furs, at the same time threatening p\mishment in case of a 

 refusal. In the spring of 1770, the Indians saw fit to comply 

 with this request; and a deputation from the band visited Macki- 

 nac, with a quantity of furs, which they considered an equivalent 

 for the goods which had been taken. The deputation was 

 received with politeness by the directors of the Company, and the 

 difficulties readily adjusted, ^yhen this was effected, a cask of 

 liquor and a flag closely rolled were presented to the Indians as a 

 token of friendship. They were at the same time strictly enjoined 



