After a short stay at Cincinnati, Baily set out for the South on
an ‘Orleans boat’ loaded with four hundred barrels of flour
After a short stay at Cincinnati, Baily set out for the South on
an ‘Orleans boat’ loaded with four hundred barrels of flour. At
the mouth of Pigeon Creek he noted the famous path to ‘Post St.
Vincent”s’ (Vincennes), over which he saw emigrants driving
cattle to that ancient town on the Wabash. At Fort Massac he met
Captain Zebulon M. Pike, whose tact in dealing with intoxicated
Indians he commended. At New Madrid Baily made a stay of some
days. This settlement, consisting of some two hundred and fifty
houses, was in the possession of Spain. It was within the
province of Louisiana, soon to be ceded to Napoleon. New Orleans
supplied this district with merchandise, but smuggling from the
United States was connived at by the Spanish officials.
