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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
of jerked beef of six-ounce and two-sixteenths of an ounce per ration. At this time the vessel was stranded; all the crew but five sick. Corporal Gaunt requested leave to hunt for fresh provisions, as the deer tracks were plenty on the margin of the mainland, about one-and-a-half miles distant, where we went daily for wood, but he never returned, having perished in the canebrakes. We finally arrived at Fort Pickering (Chickasaw Bluffs) in December, 1800. After resting, and sending out again a hundred and twenty miles to get a supply of provisions, we departed, and arrived in the mouth of the Ohio on the 16th of March, 1801, when I met my old friend, Capt. Eicion descending the river in a flat boat with further instructions for
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