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44 Hon? H.H. Sibley, Mr White of the Home department, Dr Forster? secretary to the Commission, Mr Henderson, Mr Chute? & his lovely wife, Mr Tyler, commissariat, Indian traders, & men of French, half-breed & American blood & a delegation of the principal men of the Kaposia band, headed by their Chief were also on board, & the tent? furniture, buffalo robes, blankets, rifles; mocassins &c indicated our destination to be the "Traverse des Sioux" a trading post & Indian village, about one hundred miles & ten miles from the mouth of the St Peters or Minnesota river, where they different bands of Sioux were invited to send their principal men to treat with the N. S.? for the purchase of their lands. June 30th 1851. found as? at Traverse de Sioux on a lovely prarie which rises gently from the river