"The Right Reverend, Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having signified to this Department, his desire to visit and remain sometime in the Indian country, and requested the permission required by law to enable him to do so, such permission is hereby granted; and he is commended to the friendly attention of civil and military officers and agents, and of citizens, and if at any time it shall be necessary to their protection. Given under my hand and the Seal of the War Department this 1st day of October 1838. S. Cooper. Acting Secretary of War." [420] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 31, 32; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 324, 325. [421] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 7, 1834. [422] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 38-42. [423] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 47. [424] Featherstonhaugh's _A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, Vol. II, p. 11. [425] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 43. [426] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 127-146. [427] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 127, 133. [428] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt. II, Document No. 5, pp. 1054, 1055. [429] Riggs's _Mary and I, Forty Years with the Sioux_, pp. 41, 42. [430] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 49-59. [431] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 4, p. 315. [432] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol II, Pt. III, p. 439. [433] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 343. [434] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 63, 64. [435] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. 41, p. 281, August, 1845; Vol. 32, pp. 188, 189, May, 1836. [436] _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. IV, p. 61, February, 1839; Tanner's _History of the Diocese of Minnesota_, p. 24; _Post Returns_, April, 1839, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. [437] Gear to Kemper, Nov. 29, 1841.--_Kemper Letters_, Vol. 25, No. 103. See also _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. 5, p. 68, March, 1840. [438] _Acta et Dicta_, Vol. I, No. 1, July, 1907, pp. 14-21; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 222-230. CHAPTER XI [439] Catlin's _Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians_, Vol. II, p. 592. [440] Merrick's _Old Times on the Upper Mississippi_, p. 187. The following description was given by Philander Prescott, a fur trader: