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when required. 4 He traveled in company with a 

 large party of men, women, and children who, dis- 

 heartened by the Indian ravages, were going back 

 to the settlements. They marched from fifteen to 

 twenty miles a day, driving beeves along for food. 

 In addition, the scouts at different times killed three 

 buffalo 5 and a few deer, so that they were not stinted 

 for fresh meat. 



When they got out of the wilderness he parted 

 from his companions and rode off alone. He now 

 stayed at the settler's house that was nearest when 

 night overtook him. At a large house, such as that 

 of the Campbells, near Abingdon, he was of course 

 welcomed to the best, and treated with a generous 

 hospitality, for which it would have been an insult 

 to offer money in return. At the small cabins he 

 paid his way; usually a shilling and threepence or 

 a shilling and sixpence for breakfast, bed, and feed 

 for the horse; but sometimes four or five shillings. 

 He fell in with a Captain Campbell, with whom he 

 journeyed a week, finding him "an agreeable com- 

 panion." They had to wait over one stormy day, at 

 a little tavern, and probably whiled away the time by 

 as much of a carouse as circumstances allowed; at 

 any rate, Clark's share of the bill when he left was 

 i 4S. 6 Finally, a month after leaving Harrods- 



4 This, like so many other incidents in the everyday his- 

 tory of the old pioneers, is among the ordinary experiences 

 of the present sojourner in the far West. 



5 One at Rockcastle River, two at Cumberland Ford. 



6 The items of expense jotted down in the diary are curi- 

 ous. For a night's lodging and board they range from is. 



