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ary 27, 1780. The first ten days were uneventful. 

 The Adventure spent an afternoon and night on a 

 shoal, until the water fortunately rose, and, all the 

 men getting out, the clumsy scow was floated off. 

 Another boat was driven on the point of an island 

 and sunk, her crew being nearly drowned; where 

 upon the rest of the flotilla put to shore, the sunken 

 boat was raised and bailed out, and most of her 

 cargo recovered. At one landing-place a man went 

 out to hunt, and got lost, not being taken up again 

 for three days, though "many guns were fired to 

 fetch him in," and the four-pounder on the Adven 

 ture was discharged for the same purpose. A ne 

 gro became "much frosted in his feet and legs, of 

 which he died." Where the river was wide a strong 

 wind and high sea forced the whole flotilla to lay 

 to, for the sake of the smaller craft. This happened 

 on March 7th, just before coming to the uppermost 

 Chickamauga town; and that night, the wife of 

 one Ephraim Peyton, who had himself gone with 

 Robertson overland, was delivered of a child. She 

 was in a boat whose owner was named Jonathan 

 Jennings. 



The next morning they soon came to an Indian 

 village on the south shore. The Indians made signs 

 of friendliness, and two men started toward them 

 in a canoe which the Adventure had in tow, while 

 the flotilla drew up on the opposite side of the river. 

 But a half-breed and some Indians jumped into a 

 pirogue, paddled out to meet the two messengers, 

 and advised them to return to their comrades, which 



