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PREFACE. 



The circumstances under which the present expe- 

 dition was undertaken, are indicated in the following 

 extracts from the letters of instruction. 



" Detroit, Jug. 9, 1830. 

 "Sir : I have been directed by the War Department 

 to request you to proceed into the Chippewa country, 

 to endeavor to put an end to the hostilities between the 

 Ghippewaa and Sioux. The genera) route must be left 

 to your disc retion. Whether it will be necessary for 

 you to go beyond Fond du Lac, you can best deter- 

 mine on your arrival there. From the limited means 

 applicable to this object, I am apprehensive that your 

 journey eannot be extended beyond that place. But 



fin that event, it will be necessary to summon some of 

 the principal Mississippi Chiefs to meet you. as with- 

 out their concurrence no durable pacification can be 

 effected. 



•• Your object will be to impress upon them, the ne- 

 cessity of terminating their hostilities with the Sioux. 

 And the considerations connected with the subject are 

 BO familiar to you, that I need not dwell upon them. 

 Jfou are perfectly acquainted with their useless and 

 harrowing contests, and the miseries these have in- 

 flicted, and vet threaten to inflict upon tin in. But it 



will be well to state to them the result of the recent 

 unci] at Prairie da Chien, that they may know what 



has h'eii done b\ the other Indians, and that the Sioux, 



