[209] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 8, 1831. [210] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 492; _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, p. 19. [211] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. [212] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 207. [213] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. In the Sibley House at Mendota is hung an oil painting of Fort Snelling made by Sergeant Thomas who was stationed at Fort Snelling sometime between 1836 and 1842. This painting, which was made from the hill behind Sibley House, shows the location of these various buildings. [214] For Baker's house see _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 19, 33, 34; also _Reports of Committees_, 1st session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 400. [215] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, pp. 295, 296. Charles Joseph Latrobe visited the post in the fall of 1833. [216] These buildings are shown in the picture mentioned in note 213, above. [217] There is a description of Mendota given in Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, pp. 101, 102. [218] Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, p. 117; Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, pp. 156, 157. [219] These figures are taken from Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, p. 309. [220] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 302. [221] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 37, 38; _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 148. [222] Upham's _The Women and Children of Fort St. Anthony, later named Fort Snelling_ in _The Magazine of History_, Vol. XXI, p. 37. [223] See below, the chapter entitled _Soldiers of the Cross_. [224] This enumeration of the Indian villages is from Pond's _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 320-330. The spelling of the names follows that used by Pond, although they were all written in many ways. The population figures are from Taliaferro's report in 1834, found in _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 203. [225] See the description of an Indian village in Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, pp. 288, 289; also, Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, pp. 342, 343. CHAPTER VI