The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-09-20
MT STERLING, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Ise
vcnsion, one buffalo beef's tongue ard
a little hard bread.

On an lsldnu ABOUT Z0U miles below
the falls, as the Captain supposed,
they landed. 1t was thinly covered
with trees, so they were enabled to
detect any savages, if they were on
the island, or if they should attempt
TO reach them from the shore, to de-
fend themselves, or escape by means
of the river before they could land on
the island. No Indians appearing,
they kindled fire, laid down and
slept byturns till morning, one always
keeping watch. They then with like
precautionary measures continued
their journey down the Ohio. While
they were on the island they were
fortunately enabled to take fine
young doe that they saw swimming
from the Kentucky side, and SO added
in the way of meat largely and sump-
tuously to their scanty stock of pro-
visions. Some consultation then took
place between them as to what course
they should adopt to extricate them
selves from the dilemma into which
they had fallen. They doubtless, de-
SPARED of the possibility of returning
by way of the river. 1t had risen
considerably, and the force of the cur
rent materially increased the danger
of the shots of the savages on the
shore, as their speed would be much
impeded by the resistance of the cur
rent. To attempt to make their way
through the mighty wilderness, SO
great distance to any OF the stations
of which they had any knowledge,
the wilderness being filled with the
willy savage foes, as they would natu-
rally judge from their continued APP
pearance on the river as they de-
scended it, and also being without a
sufficient supply of food, seemed mad
ness. They did not settle on what
course they would pursue until after
they had taken the fine fat doe. The
old Captain then said to his COM
panions: "By cooks! friends, this is
doing pretty well, and / have no
doubts bat that game is plentiful all
the way down the river. Now, will
tell you since we've had this piece of
good luck; let the worst come to the
worst, these red devils can only COM
pei us to keep to the river, and travel
down it antil it brings us to stop
ping-place OF somewhere else, and, by
cooks. L have sort of natural Curl
osity, anyway, to see where these
mighty waters go. So think we
will just drive on this current and
look into this business and when we
get out of meat l am sure we can get
plenty of game when we stop awhile
to hunt, and Wen get after awhile
to the Spaniards at New Orleans and
there get aboard some ship or trading
vessel and 60 around to Charlestown
or some place further towards home
some of these days. That we'll try if
you are willing"
Both of his companions were brave
men, accustomed to the hardsnips of
hunters, and both, he knew, were ac-
customed to Indian warfare. Porter
at once agreed with Ashby, and said
he thought they had better keep with
the pirogue and sail downward, but
Wells, for time, with considerable
warmth, resisted the proposition, and
said he did not like the idea of getting
among the bloody Spaniards, and
would rather risk it among the Shaw
nee Indians, rowing slowly up stream
and threatened to leave their water
craft and try to return by land alone
rather than risk the diseases of the
river and the Spanish people. He
finally consented, however, and as
before suggested, to keep on down the
river. Nothing of importance &C.
CURED to them until they reached the
mouth Of the Ohio, where, ON the
point formed by its junction with the
Mississippi, they landed, and taking
their pirogue out of the water into a
thick cluster of cane, they went some
distance FROM the river, hid their
canoe in the cane, then built a fire
and formed shelter as well as sthey
could by cutting and spreading over a
sort of frame work made of poles a
quantity of small, but tall cane. Here
they also found some geme--wild
turkeys, etc.-and remained there two
days and rested.
Here again these wanderers, though
far away from their homes aud the
haunts of civilized society. were IN