THE PA&SENGBR PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 25 



down the river to Warren, Pa,, calling at Tununguam 

 on the way, where he became acquainted with John 

 Titus, the young chief who led his braves, 1814, to 

 Lundy's Lane at Niagara Falls, Ontario, in one day 

 — 80 miles — and joined the fighting Americans at sun- 

 set, the record for infantry ; and also stopping at Corn- 

 planter's Run in Warren county, where he met John 

 O'Bail, known as Chief Cornplanter, the friend of the 

 whiteman. 



He found that Captain Warren had been to Pitts- 

 burg w^ith rafts of pine lumber and, upon hearing of 

 the freeze up the river, had hustled a boat load of fresh 

 seeds to Warren, which had just arrived, and Mr. Ly- 

 man procured all he required and then began his ardu- 

 ous return trip — 100 miles up the Allegheny. With 

 help of Indians the canoe, loaded with seeds, was poled 

 and, in swift places, hauled by towlines, back to Alle- 

 gheweo, in fifteen days, and by oxen, on sleds onward 

 to Coudersport, and beyond, to Lymansville, where all 

 the gardens were replanted by the 24th of June, and the 

 ruined corn fields sown with buckwheat, on and before 

 July 4, by the rejoicing settlers. 



John Lyman told the story of the flocks of pigeons - 

 he had seen every day and of twenty colonies, in nest- 

 ing valleys along the river, that he heard of from In- 

 dians, and estimated that these twenty wards each held 

 a million adult birds — 20 millions in all. 



Fireside speculations, in doubtful tones, were rife 

 for five years, until a nesting city along the Allegheny 

 river was reported in 1810. Then John Lyman and 



