Weld carried out this commission during the calendar year 1832; his report on his activities is dated January 10, 1833. In it he states that "In prosecuting the business of my agency, I have traveled during the year four thousand five hundred and seventy-five miles km; in public conveyances and stagecoach, 2,630 km; on horseback, 1,800 km; on foot, 145 km. I have made two hundred and thirty-six public addresses." He was nearly killed when a high river swept away the coach he was in.