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Osage River [fur] agency
 
Osage River [fur] agency
at Miami [], [Aur] 5<sup>th</sup> 1846.
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at Miami [Lands], [Nov] 5<sup>th</sup> 1846.
  
 
Sir,
 
Sir,
the emigrating miamias left the mouth of Kansas River on Monday the 2<sup>d</sup> [], and they have been arriving here during yesterday & today, a portion of them rode their poneys, and they [ae-idue] with the baggage was brought through by the [contractor] in [waggens].
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the emigrating Miamies left the mouth of Kansas River on Monday the 2<sup>d</sup> [], and they have been arriving here during yesterday & today, a portion of them rode their poneys, and they [ae-idue] with the baggage was brought through by the [contractor] in [waggens].
 
[We] had one more death on the 3<sup>d</sup>. ( a boy of about 16) [he] had been a long time sick and was improving in health [] by [imprudence] he brought about a [], this [] in all, seven deaths that have occurred during the emigration.
 
[We] had one more death on the 3<sup>d</sup>. ( a boy of about 16) [he] had been a long time sick and was improving in health [] by [imprudence] he brought about a [], this [] in all, seven deaths that have occurred during the emigration.
on the 4<sup>th</sup> of [-ent] an [exhuss] to [Col vaughaw] with a letter from me [whortinng] my arrival here, and [] this early attention to the acception of the Miamias, and [hopes] soon to have the [] of [maleeing] [] acquaintance; and of handing [] [] him the Indians under my charge in compliance with your directions.
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on the 4<sup>th</sup> of [-ent] an [exhuss] to [Col vaughaw] with a letter from me [whortinng] my arrival here, and [] this early attention to the acception of the Miamies, and [hopes] soon to have the [] of [maleeing] [] acquaintance; and of handing [] [] him the Indians under my charge in compliance with your directions.