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not break. By January first there were over two 

 hundred people scattered on both sides of the river. 

 In Robertson's company was a man named John 

 Rains, who brought with him twenty-one horned 

 cattle and seventeen horses; the only cattle and 

 horses which any of the immigrants succeeded in 

 bringing to the Cumberland. But he was not the 

 only man who had made the attempt. One of the 

 immigrants who went in Donelson's flotilla, Daniel 

 Dunham by name, offered his brother John, who 

 went by land, 100 to drive along his horses and 

 cattle. John accepted, and tried his best to fulfil 

 his share of the bargain; but he was seemingly 

 neither a very expert woodsman nor yet a good 

 stock hand. There is no form of labor more ardu 

 ous and dispiriting than driving unruly and un 

 broken stock along a faint forest or mountain trail, 

 especially in bad weather; and this the would-be 

 drover speedily found out. The animals would not 

 follow the trail; they incessantly broke away from 

 it, got lost, scattered in the brush, and stampeded 

 at night. Finally the unfortunate John, being, as 

 he expressed it, nearly "driven mad by the drove," 

 abandoned them all in the wilderness. 8 



The settlers who came by water passed through 

 much greater peril and hardship. By a stroke of 

 good fortune the journal kept by Donelson, the 

 leader of the expedition, has been preserved. 9 As 



8 MSS. on "Dunham Pioneers," in Nashville Hist. Society. 

 Daniel, a veteran stockman, was very angry when he heard 

 what had happened. 



9 Original MS. "Journal of Voyage intended by God's per- 



