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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
four-pounder, and with orders to proceed to Pittsburgh, where he had left on the 8th of June, 1798. The crew suffered much on the voyage for want of provisions; they were often two, three, and once six days without bread, meat or salt. Having dispatched the jolly boat with a crew of five men (all that were well to Fort Pickering, about a hundred and sixty miles above us; having no salt provisions at that place she was obliged to proceed to Fort Massai, on the Ohio, two hundred and sixty miles further up. We subsisted on the Muscadine grapes during this six days, and wild potatoes, which grew on the banks of the Mississippi. At another time the boat was sent to Fort Pickering; on arrival there was no meat, and we had to send a hundred and twenty miles in the interior to the Chickasaws to get a supply
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