[452] "My head was covered with the bark of a tree, formed into the shape of a hat and sewed with threads of bark; and shoes, a coat, and pantaloons, such as are used by Canadians in the Indian territories, and formed of original skins sewed together by thread made of the muscles of that animal, completed the grotesque appearance of my person."--Beltrami's _A Pilgrimage in Europe and America_, Vol. II, p. 481. For a short summary of Beltrami's work see the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 183-196. [453] Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. II, p. 200. [454] Catlin's _North American Indians_, Vol. II, pp. 599-602. [455] Catlin's _North American Indians_, Vol. II, pp. 602-607. This quotation is from page 607. [456] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 24th Congress, Vol. IV, Document No. 333. [457] Featherstonhaugh's _A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, Vol. I, p. 262. [458] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 246. [459] Featherstonhaugh's _A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, Vol. I, pp. 261, 266, 288. [460] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, pp. 187, 188. [461] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. II, Document No. 52, p. 53. [462] Brower's _The Mississippi River and its Source_ which comprises Vol. VII of the _Minnesota Historical Collections_. See p. 162. [463] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 242-245; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 189. [464] In his reminiscences John C. Fremont has left a very interesting account of these two expeditions.--Fremont's _Memoirs of My Life_, Vol. I, pp. 30-54. [465] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. I, p. 183. [466] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 129, 133, 134. [467] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), pp. 914, 915. [468] _North Western Gazette and Galena Advertiser_, June 26, 1840. [469] _North Western Gazette and Galena Advertiser_, June 5, 1840. [470] _Louisville Journal_ quoted in the _North Western Gazette and Galena Advertiser_, June 14, 1838. [471] Jackson Kemper was appointed missionary bishop of the Northwest in 1835 and held the position until 1859 when he accepted the bishopric of Wisconsin. His papers and diaries are in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. For an account of his work see Tiffany's _A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States_, pp. 448, 493. [472] _Kemper Papers_, Vol. XXVII, No. 113. [473] _Kemper Papers_, Vol. XXVII, No. 116. CHAPTER XII [474] _Journals of Congress_, Vol. III, p. 589. [475] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. I, p. 138. [476] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. XVI, p. 566. [477] _Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs_, 1890, p. xxix.