264 APPENDIX. 



Documents transmitted to the House of Representatives, in com- 

 pliance with a resolution of February 24, 1832. 



No. 1. 



Sault Ste. Marie, October 1, 1831. 



His Excellency George B. Porter, Governor of ) 

 Michigan, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. ) 



Sir, 

 I have now the honor, through your intervention, to forward to 

 the Department my report of the late tour through the Huron 

 Territory. It has not been possible to prepare the map referred 

 to in season to accompany the report, but it will be forwarded 

 as soon as it can be completed. In the mean time, I send a 

 sketch of portions of the country intermediate between Lake Su- 

 perior and the Mississippi, from which you will be enabled to 

 trace my particular route, and the location of the principal streams, 

 lakes, and villages. The imperfect state of public information 

 respecting the geography of this region, and the numerous errors 

 which still continue to characterize our maps, render something 

 of this kind essential. 



With the limited means assigned for the accomplishment of 

 the object, it became necessary that every moment of time should 

 be used in pushing forward. This will account for the great 

 space travelled in a comparatively short time. I am of the opin 

 ion, however, that little or nothing has been lost from the efficacy 

 of the movement by its celerity. Lakes, rivers, and villages 

 succeeded each other, with short intervals. But, in ascending 

 each river, in crossing each lake and portage, the object of the 

 expedition was definitely impressed upon the natives who wit- 

 nessed our progress ; and it was acquiesced in by the chiefs and 

 warriors, at the several councils which I held with them. For a 

 general detail of these councils, the report may be consulted. 



It will be perceived that new topics for discussion arose from 

 a recent misunderstanding between the Chippewas and Menomo- 

 nies ; and from the uncertainty as to the spot where the boun- 

 dary line between the Chippewas and Sioux strikes the falls on 

 the Red Cedar fork, agreeably to a just construction of the treaty 

 of Prairie du Chien of 1825. With respect to the first, I am 



