[46] A contrary statement is made by Messrs. Irvin and Hamilton in Schoolcraft’s HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES, Vol. III, page 260, (1853), wherein the Iowa are mentioned as being “but a remnant of a once numerous and considerable nation.” Estimates as follows given as a total—in 1764 (Bouquet) 1100; 1804 (Lewis & Clark) 800; 1822 (Morse) 1000; 1829 (Sec. of War) 1000; 1832 (Drake) 1100; 1843 (Report Indian Affairs) 470; and the Donaldson Report (11th Census, taken from Jackson catalog of photographs, etc., Washington, 1877) 1894, states that their number reached 1500 early in the 19th century. Catlin conjectures 1400 in 1832 and 992 in 1836. The total remnant of the tribe in 1905 was 314; in 1908, 339, these figures being from official sources. [47] Writing in 1876, the author seems unfamiliar with Pére André’s reference to the tribe in 1676, and quotes from Le Sueur who knew this band first in 1700. [48] The present spelling of the name was first used by Lieut. Albert M. Lea in his NOTES ON THE WISCONSIN TERRITORY, 1836, wherein he referred to the country west of the Mississippi as the “Ioway District”, suggested by the Ioway river. This point will be brought out fully in the new edition of Lea’s Notes now in preparation by the Ioway Club, edited by L. A. Brewer. [49] The tribe has long since been divided and now occupies lands in the Potawatomi and Great Nemaha Agency in Kansas and the Sauk and Fox Agency in Oklahoma. See Kappler. LAWS AND TREATIES, 2 vols., Washington, 1903. [50] Benard de la Harpe, a French officer who came to Louisiana in 1718. His Narrative of Le Sueur’s Expedition is included by French in his HIST. COLL. OF LOUISIANA, Part III, page 19 _et seq._, and is also given by Shea, EARLY VOYAGES UP AND DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, Albany, 1861, reprint, 1908. For a lengthy bibliographical note of this work, see A. McF. Davis in Winsor’s NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY, Vol. V, page 63. [51] Pierre Charles le Sueur, a French geologist, member of Iberville’s Expedition of 1698, and sent primarily to report on the “green earth” (copper mines), known to him through previous researches in 1695. [52] At the best information concerning the expedition of Le Sueur is scant. The most important source is the work of one Penicaut, Perricaut or Perricault (see A. McF. Davis in Winsor’s NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY, Vol. V, page 71), a carpenter who accompanied the Iberville party from France in 1698 and remained in Louisiana until 1781. The most complete form in which we are able to read the JOURNAL is in Margry’s DÉCOUVERTES ET ÉTABLISSEMENTS DES FRANÇAIS DANS L’OUEST ET DANS LE SUD DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, Vol. V, page 319 _et seq._ Penicaut’s ANNALS OF LOUISIANA (1698-1722) are translated in their entirety in French’s HIST. COLL. OF LOUISIANA, _New Series_, Vol. I, but this translation must be read with caution as French was not the most careful of translators.