14/47 The animals would not follow the trail; they incessantly broke away from it, got lost, scattered in the brush, and stampeded at night. Finally the unfortunate John, being, as he expressed it, nearly "driven mad by the drove," abandoned them all in the wilderness. on "Dunham Pioneers," in Nashville Hist.Society.Daniel, a veteran stockman, was very angry when he heard what had happened.] Voyage of the "Adventure." The settlers who came by water passed through much greater peril and hardship. By a stroke of good fortune the journal kept by Donelson, the leader of the expedition, has been preserved. |