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"Field notes" of the real character of the land and its marked topography. There was also a similar slighting of work noticible in the field, whereever stones were found upon the mounds, which were quite irregularly built, these had no marks to show the section, or township, or Range, of the place where they were set. This [[insert]] omission [[/insert]] made it needful for the Surveyor to start all his lines from the Government survey outside the reservation in order to ascertain where he was inside the reservation, thus consuming time and involving extra work.

On my arrival at Kamiah, the native minister Rev. Robert Williams at once called upon me, and expressed his interest in the allotment, from him and later from others I learned much of the admirable work and influence of the Misses McBeth in stimulating the ambition of the Kamiah Nez Perce Indians to become self-sustaining and to look forward to citizenship, thus