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burg, where they built cabins and sowed corn; but 

 the Indians killed one of their number, and the rest 

 dispersed. Some returned across the mountains; 

 but Sowdowsky and another went through the woods 

 to the Cumberland River, where they built a canoe, 

 paddled down the muddy Mississippi between un- 

 ending reaches of lonely marsh and forest, and from 

 New Orleans took ship to Virginia. 



At that time, among other parties of surveyors 

 there was one which had been sent by Lord Dun- 

 more to the Falls of the Ohio. When the war 

 broke out between the Shawnees and the Virgin- 

 ians, Lord Dunmore, being very anxious for the fate 

 of these surveyors, sent Boone and Stoner to pilot 

 them in; which the two bush veterans accordingly 

 did, making the round trip of 800 miles in 64 days. 

 The outbreak of the Indian war caused all the hunt- 

 ers and surveyors to leave Kentucky ; and at the end 

 of 1774 there were no whites left, either there or in 

 what is now middle Tennessee. But on the frontier 

 all men's eyes were turned toward these new and 

 fertile regions. The pioneer work of the hunter 

 was over, and that of the axe-bearing settler was 

 about to begin. 



gave Sandusky its name, for this is almost certainly a cor- 

 ruption of its old Algonquin title. "American Pioneer" 

 (Cincinnati, 1843), II., p. 325. 



