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Show APPENDIX TO PA~T I. Il.J , ot content \\:1t l1 sufreriupo· the laws to s..\. um-t ticc-\Vhat! Lt. 1 ~c 11 ted them-has now l-luhcrct I . Illy to h::n e execu l bcr when it was u" c L ven here to violate tiH.~m, anc ' •. e-ents to come e theN. 'V. company ~a.::> U. . I States; certainly he must be cor~ . . the citizens oi the ntle< lOJUl'e . . ,, rupted to adm~t thts. ll b, tl e natural conclusion of all persons '" This, str, wou l c I -·- [ No. 10. ] b. , t of .~t:Lling sj1irituous liquor~ C .h of a l ct t e1 . to a trader, on thr .'fit 'IJCC • 01·1J to Indians. Grand Isle, Upper Ml. 5e·l SS·l ppl· , 9th April , 1806. Mn. LA JENN'ESSE, SxR, 1 hwe ant. ve el hcl·e ,vilh an intention BEING in[ormc:l t 1al you , . , . [ this Cjuart(,r, together . . l n IOl'S to the sav.tgcs o of selling spu·ttuous t.,l. 1 •.. ' I ben· leave to infOt·m r \er your c lal gc. i:) with other merchanc lze \Jnt . . I,. ·s on the Indian terri- \ . ale of sptntuous tquol you, that, the nia ung s . . contrary to a law of the Unitctl . ages w hatsocvct, 1s • · tones to any sav} · tl e l 'tl tlle' S"V'\o-es ·, and preservmg ti"H e Wl l " ''"> States fot· regu att~lg 1 A ,l 1, t Ol\V.Jthstanclinn- the custom has I ·· t rs m t l<l ' 11 " peace on t \e ll'On te . 1.\1' . ssippi no person whntsocvet· hitherto obtained on the Upper !SSt . , , llave a tendency to has auLhority thct·cfor ; am1 ,,, s tl e pracuce m.1y ' ' 1 , t tl e sav"ges and thereby occasion broils and dt· ssent·w ~s an1o. n.g s f tlh e ' go" od 'u nderstanding occasion bloodshed, anu an mfracuon o I '1 xists I have (at which now (through my en~lcavors) sol ·l-app; y i: wri~ing, informyour particnlar request) addressed you t uslnl o e . ve it my duty,;~<; . th"t l·n case of an infraction, I sha concel . ~ ng you ... ' d. to the JlOtiiJ an of1'tcer of the United States, to prosecute accor mg :md jlenalties of the law. I am, sir, 'Vith all due consideration, Yom obedient servant, (Signed) z. l\tl. Pmi£, Lt. A'PPENDIX TO PART I. [No. ll. J DEAlt GENETtAr., Prairie De C/1irn, 18t!t .1/jm'{, 1806. I ARRIVED here within the hour, antl as Mr. Jeal'l'eau of Cahokia, embarks lot· St: Louis eal'!y to-morrow moruing-, 1 embrace this oppol'lunity, to g-ive a sli g-ht sketch of the events of my expedition; and being oblig·ed to steal the ho'l l'S from my repose, [ hope the gene ral will pardon the conciseness of my epistle. I pushed forward Jast October, with alJ eagemess, in hopes to make Lake De Sable, ancJ return to St. Louis in the autumn; the weather was mild and promising, until the middle of tile month, when a sudden chang-e took place and the icc immediately commenced running. I was then conscious of my inal;ility to retum, as the falls and othet· obstacles would retain rne until the t·ivet· would r:ose. I then conceived it best to station pur'l of my men, and puslt lliY discovery with the remainder on fool. I marched with eleven soldiers and rny inteq)l'cler·, seven hundred miles to the source of the "'~lississippi, through 1 I may without vanity say) as n1any hardships as :tlmost any party of Americans ever experienced, by cold ancl hunger-. 1 was on the commu11ication of Red river and the Mississippi, the fol'mer being- a water of IIuclson's bay. The British flag, (which was expanded on some very r~spcct.,blc positions) has given place to that of the United States \Vhercver we passed: likewise, we have the faith and honor· of theN. \V. compally, fot·abottt $13,000 duties this year; ~mel by the voyage, peace is established between the Sioux and Sautcurs. These objects I have been happy enough. to accon1plish wllhout the loss of one man, llthough once fired on. 1 expect houl'ly the Sussitongs, Yanctonp;s, \Vachpccoutcs> and tht·cc other· bands of Sioux; they arc some from the head of the St. Peters, anti some from the plains west of that river. From het·e I brinf; with me a few or the principal men only, ( agr·eeably to your ot ders) also some chiefs of the Fols A ruing (or· Menomencs) an c[ vVincbag-os, the latter of whorn h.we murdered three men since my passing- here last autumn: the murderers 1 shall demand, an<l am in expectation of obtaining· two, (for whom I now have irons making) and expect to have them with me on my anival. Indeed, si1·, the insolence of the savages in this quaner is unbounded, and un· less an immediate <'xamplc is made, we shall certainly be oblig-ed to enter into n r;cneral war wjth them. 1· |