1 86 The Winning of the West 



The reason for this discrimination in favor of the 

 citizens of the Quaker State was that the Virginians 

 with whom the Indians came chiefly in contact were 

 settlers, whereas the Pennsylvanians were traders. 

 The marked difference in the way the savages looked 

 at the two classes received additional emphasis in 

 Lord Dunmore's war. 



At the mouth of the Kanawha 41 the adventurers 

 found twenty or thirty men gathered together ; some 

 had come to settle, but most wished to explore or 

 survey the lands. All were in high spirits, and reso- 

 lute to go to Kentucky, in spite of Indian hostili- 

 ties. Some of them joined Floyd, and raised his 

 party to eighteen men, who started down the Ohio 

 in four canoes. 42 They found "a battoe loaded with 

 corn/' apparently abandoned, and took about three 

 bushels with them. Other parties joined them from 

 time to time, as they paddled and drifted down 

 stream; and one or two of their own number, 

 alarmed by further news of Indian hostilities, went 

 back. Once they met a party of Delawares, by 

 whom they were not molested; and again two or 

 three of their number encountered a couple of hos- 

 tile savages ; and though no one was hurt, the party 

 kept on the watch all the time. They marveled 

 much at the great trees one sycamore was thirty- 

 seven feet in circumference, and on a Sunday, 

 which they kept as a day of rest, they examined with 

 interest the forest-covered embankments of a fort 



41 Which they reached on the 2Oth. 



42 On the 22d. 



