160 pioneer life; ok, 



with the venison, was all we obtained. The next 

 day we returned home. On our arrival at Kenzua 

 T gave my share of the venison and elk-skins in the 

 woods to my partners, as I resided at such a distance 

 that I did not think they would pay fur the trouble 

 of conveying home. 



In October, 1823, in company with John Camp- 

 bell, Marshall Whitcomb and a Mr. Whitmore, I set 

 out from Kenzua, in a large canoe, of above three 

 tons burthen, to hunt and fish down the Alle any. 

 We took with us four dogs and a seine. At the Big 

 Bend, three miles below Kenzua, we took seven 

 barrels of fish of various kinds, among which were 

 salmon, muskelonge, and some remarkably fine speci- 

 mens of pike as well as white and yellow bass. We 

 proceeded down to Glade Bun, two miles above 

 Warren, where we caught two barrels of fish and 

 killed a fawn and buck deer. At the village we 

 caught another barrel of fish. At Dunn's Eddy, 

 nine miles oelow Warren, we killed two deer, but 

 took no fish. One of the deer was a spike buck — 

 the antlers running up straight, without branches. 

 Three miles below, at the residence of Robert 

 Thompson, we caught two barrels of fish, among 

 which were some immense muskelonge ; and also 

 killed five deer. We then moved down about four- 

 teen miles, to White Oak Shoot, where we shot two 

 deer. Returning from our hunt, we again went to 

 fishing with our seine, assisted by a resident there, 

 named Daniel Jones, and three of his sons. Here 

 we had a large haul, the weight of the fish being so 



