OFFICIAL REPORTS. 



Office Indian Agency I 



Sauh SU. Mane, August loth, 1632. $ 



Elbist Hkejung, K ... 



Office of Indian Affairs, Washington. 



Sir : I hasten to inform you that I yesterday returned from my ex- 

 pedition to the northwest. On reaching the Miss ssippi I found the state 

 of the water favorable for ascending. No difficulty was experienced 

 in reaching the highest point, to which this stream has hitherto been ex- 

 point, I procun s of the smallest class, and 

 tided, with Indian guides, to its actual source in Itasca Lake. 

 Upwards of two thousand Chippewas have been met in council, in 

 their villages, or in detached parties on the way. At every point, vac- 

 cinations have been made, under the authority of the act of the last 

 \ pportunity has been omitted to enforce the 

 objects of the instr og their hostilities with each other, and 

 to point out and make dear to their comprehenaioD, their true relation 

 to the United States. The efforts made to procun,' the assent of the 

 Chippewas to the I I . < n them on this head, were stated to the 

 l in a council to which I invited them at the Agency of St. Peter's. 

 of date g the trade and population, and the 

 graphical distribution of the- bands, has been, with other details, re- 

 sulting from my ins! . at all times, kept in view. I shall devote 

 ■a I can m the accumulated duties of the 

 office, in drawing up a detailed re] 



I am, 



very respectfully, 

 your ob. serv't, 



Hj:.nkv U. Schoolcraft. 



