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at the mouth of the Scioto, a memorial of the 

 mound-builders who had vanished some centuries 

 before. 



When they reached the mouth of the Kentucky 48 

 they found two Delawares and a squaw, to whom 

 they gave corn and salt. Here they split up, and 

 Floyd and his original party spent a week in the 

 neighborhood, surveying land, going some distance 

 up the Kentucky to a salt lick, where they saw a 

 herd of three hundred buffalo. 44 They then again 

 embarked, and drifted down the Ohio. On May 

 26th they met two Delawares in a canoe flying a 

 red flag; they had been sent down the river with a 

 pass from the commandant at Fort Pitt to gather 

 their hunters and get them home, in view of the 

 threatened hostilities between the Shawnees and Vir- 

 ginians. 45 The actions of the two Indians were so 

 suspicious, and the news they brought was so alarm- 

 ing, that some of Floyd's companions became great- 



43 On May 



44 There were quarrels among the surveyors. The entry 

 for May isth runs: "Our company divided, eleven men went 

 up to Harrad's company one hundred miles up the Cantucky 

 or Louisa river (n. b. one Capt. Harrad has been there many 

 months building a kind of Town &c. ) in order to make im- 

 provements. This day a quarrel arose between Mr. Lee and 

 Mr. Hyte ; Lee cut a Stick and gave Hyte a Whiping with it, 

 upon which Mr. Floyd demanded the King's Peace which 

 stopt it sooner than it would have ended if he had not been 

 there." 



45 They said that in a skirmish the whites had killed thir- 

 teen Shawnees, two Mingos, and one Delaware (this may or 

 may not mean the massacres by Cresap and Greathouse ; see, 

 post, chapter on Lord Dunmore's War). 



