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camp, is iooo ns preparatiom could be made; I lice 



would be given them by the Bring of the military, and that] 

 should then lay before them Lb 1 came to deliver 



from their Great Father, the President, and off .. at the - 

 time, my own counsel, on pie subjects be bad spoken of. 



During the day constant a< to the nun 



i f Indians, from the hotn 



the council arrived, there could have been but little short of a 

 thousand souls present Most of the warriors carried their 

 arms, ami were painted and drcst in their gayest manner. And 

 they walked through the village with a bold and free air, in stri- 

 king contrast with the subdued and cringing aspect, which is 

 sometimes witnessed in the vicinity of the posts and 

 ments. Many applications were made for the extraction of< 

 rayed teeth, and lor blood letting, the latter of which apprt 

 to be a favorite remedy among the northern Indians. Most oi 

 the time of the surgeon, (Dr. Houghton,) was h mploy- 



ed in the application of the vaccine virus, which constituJ 

 of the primary objects of tb the numl 



vaccinated by him. <>ne W8J past the' age "1" < 

 tween sixty and eighty, and a large number under t!. 

 ten. Little dilliculty was found m getting them to sul 

 the process, and wherever there was hesitancy or refusal 

 seemed to arise from a distrust of the protect, . of the 



ase. None had been previously vaccinated. Oftheyoun 

 classes, it was remarked here, as at other places, that the b 

 evinced no fear on the display of the lancet, but nearly ev< 

 f« male child, either came with reluctance and entn aty of 

 parents, or was absolute]) obli 1 tone held, during the pm- 

 The i by the small pox in this quarter, about 



the y. ar 1782, W ft 



tradition, and had if- i; . 



not only t<. i le vaccine virus, but in imparting a so 



tude that all might be included, nsore them from 



