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 Reports have been received from SC vcral of ,ilie surgeons employed, aud from the Indian Agents, Wlliesl prove that the duty assigned to thcin has been faithful, executed. 0fine Deliawares, Sssawaaeese, and other tribes ia the agency of Major Gunnnins, in Missouri, l,C35 have been vaccinatsd; of the Great and l.ittla 0sages, ,2,i97; of the ssibesin Mir. Scliooicraft sagency. a,070: of the Sioux, between 6 and T00. 4. large proportion of the Menomonees and

 Wmnebagoes, and many Of the Otsa- was of inc Miami, and i'otawatamies, of the St. Joseph, M.re vaceinatea be- lore instructions were received by the agents for these tribes, 10 carry into ef- feet the late act.

 Il IS gratifying to know that the h. dlans have every where, with one ex- |ception, received the persons selected 1 to perform this duty, with gratitude to lIhe Government, aad have manifested an anxious desire to secure to tolhe,nselges Ithe benefts and protection ftheprocess Iof vaccination.

 The surgeons and agents employed |upen this duty, we're requested to ins c!udc intiier reports ;lI the information that could be procuret! s'eoneerning the history, progress and effects e!f ss!,ee sasai! pox among the IndiaAs.n

 From very minute and able report, made by Dr. Douglass Eiangh.on, Wllo accompanied NIT. Selioolcralt 10 the tribes on Lake Superior, and to the sources of the Mississippi, al extract is herewith submitted, which Is salua- 1 ble for the historical data it contains. "Thc small pox appears to have been

 wholly unknown to the Ghippesvas of Lake Superior, until about I75D, when. Il war party of more than one hundred young men, from the bands resident near the head of the Lake, having vis- |ited Montreal for the purpose of assis. ling the French if their existing troubles with the English, becape infected with

 the disease, and but few of the party sur

 viyed to reach their homes. It does not

 appear, although they made a precipi-

 tate retreat to their own country, that

 the disease was at this fine communi-

 cated to any others of the tribe. ] sAbout the year ITO the disease ap-

 peared a second time among the Chip

 pewas, but, unlike that which preceded lit, it was communicated to the more

 northern banda.

 he circumstances connected with l its introduction are related nearly as fol lows:

 SSometime in the fall of l767 or 8, a trader who had ascended the Mississip- pi, and established himself near Leech

 lake, was robbed of his goods by the h. dians residing at that lake; and, iu con

 sequence of his exertions in defending

 his property, he died soon after.

 nThese facts became known to the di-

 rectorsofthe fur company. at Mackinac,

 and each successive year ataes, requests I were sent 10 tlfa Leecf Lake Indiana, that they should vieif Mackinac, and

 make rcparalion for tho goods they had taken IT ! aaYzlepl ' lufs # tbe

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