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or make a way passable for wheels. 8 Accordingly, 

 their goods and implements were placed on pack- 

 horses, and the company started again. 9 Most for- 

 tunately a full account of their journey has been 

 kept; for among Henderson's followers at this time 

 was a man named William Calk, who jotted down 

 in his diary the events of each day. 10 It is a short 

 record, but as amusing as it is instructive; for the 

 writer's mind was evidently as vigorous as his lan- 

 guage was 'terse and untrammeled. He was with a 

 small party, who were going out as partners; and 

 his journal is a faithful record of all things, great 

 or small, that at the time impressed him. The 

 opening entry contains the information that 

 "Abram's dog's leg got broke by Drake's dog." 

 The owner of the latter beast, by the way, could 

 not have been a pleasant companion on a trip of 

 this sort, for elsewhere the writer, who, like most 

 backwoodsmen, appreciated cleanliness in essentials, 

 records with evident disfavor the fact that "Mr. 

 Drake Bakes bread without washing his hands." 

 Every man who has had the misfortune to drive 

 a pack-train in thick timber, or along a bad trail, 

 will appreciate keenly the following incident, which 

 occurred soon after the party had set out for home : 



8 Richard Henderson's "Journal of an Expedition to Can- 

 tucky in 1775" (Collins). 



9 April 5th. 



10 It is printed in the Filson Club publications ; see "The 

 Wilderness Road," by Thomas Speed, Louisville, Ky., 1886; 

 one of the best of an excellent series. 



