At this meeting we were much rejoiced.

He gave us every information we wished, and further informed us that he had purchased a quantity of corn in Kentucky, to be shipped at the Falls of Ohio for the use of the Cumberland settlement.

We are now without bread and are compelled to hunt the buffalo to preserve life....
"Monday, April 24th.

This day we arrived at our journey's end at the Big Salt Lick, where we have the pleasure of finding Captain Robertson and his company.

It is a source of satisfaction to us to be enabled to restore to him and others their families and friends, who were entrusted to our care, and who, sometime since, perhaps, despaired of ever meeting again...." Past the camps of the Chickamaugans--who were retreating farther and farther down the twisting flood, seeking a last standing ground in the giant caves by the Tennessee--these white voyagers had steered their pirogues.