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threatened him with death when he lost the way. 

 Clark was to furnish Saunders with three men, a 

 pack-horse, salt, and ammunition; while Saunders 

 agreed to do his best and be "assiduously indus- 

 trious" in hunting. Buffalo beef, bear's meat, deer 

 hams, and bear oil were the commodities most 

 sought after. The meat was to be properly cured 

 and salted in camp, and sent from time to time to 

 the Falls, where Clark was to dispose of it in 

 market, a third of the price going to Saunders. 

 The hunting season was to last from November 

 ist to January I5th. 33 



Thus the settlers could no longer always kill 

 their own game; and there were churches, schools, 

 mills, stores, race tracks, and markets in Kentucky. 



33 Original agreement in Durrett MSS. ; bound volume of 

 "Papers Relating to G. R. Clark." This particular agree- 

 ment is for 1784; but apparently he entered into several such 

 in different years. 



