At Natchez, Baily organized a party which included the five
‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure
At Natchez, Baily organized a party which included the five
‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure. For their
twenty-one days” journey to Nashville the party laid in the
following provisions: 15 pounds of biscuit, 6 pounds of flour, 12
pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of dried beef, 8 pounds of rice, 1 1/2
pounds of coffee, 4 pounds of sugar, and a quantity of pounded
corn, such as the Indians used on all their journeys. After
celebrating the Fourth of July, 1797, with ‘all the inhabitants
who were hostile to the Spanish Government,’ and bribing the
baker at the Spanish fort to bake them a quarter of a
hundredweight of bread, the party started on their northward
journey.
