that it was "dangerous to get too near." They were obliged therefore to settle half a mile away from the river No wonder that on July 1st the Winnebagoes are reported pleased with their location, and anxious to return to Minnesota, or to some other place among the whites." Thoy gathered together in council, and requested Superintendent Thompson to write to their Great Father for permission "to move among the whites again. # whites that they are more afraid of wild Indians than the whites are," They have lived so long among the The superintendent hopes, however, they will be more contented as soon as be can get them comfortable build ings. But on July 16th we find Brigadier-goneral Sulley, com mander of the North-western expedition against Indians, writ- ing to the Department in behalf of these unfortunate ereatures General Sulley having been detained in camp near Crow Creek on account of the low water, the chiefs had gone to him with their tale of misery. "They stated that nothing wonld grow here. They dare not go out to hunt for fcar of other tribes, and they would all starye to death. This I belicve to be truc, without the Government intends to ration them all thc time The land is sandy, dry, and parehod up. The land is poor; a low, sandy soil I don't think you can depend on a crop of corn even onee in five years, as it seldom 1ains here in the sum mer. I find them hard at work making canoes, with the intention of quitting the agency and going to join the Omahas or some other tribe down the river. They said they had been promiscd to be scttled on the Big Sioux IRiver,* ** I told must stay here till they got perm ington to move; that, if they attempted it, thcy would be fired tlhen ion from Wash- on by my troops stationed down the river."

This is a graplic picture of the condition of a band of two thousand human beings, for whose "benefit" $82,537 62 had just been realized from sale of their lands by the Government, to say nothing of the property they owned in lands yet