says six quarts of parched corn.] All his troops having gathered, to the number of nine hundred and seventy, Clark started up the Ohio on the second of August.

[Footnote: This date and number are those given in the Bradford MS.

The McAfee MSS.
say July 1st; but it is impossible that the expedition should have started so soon after Bird's inroad.

On July 1st, Bird himself was probably at the mouth of the Licking.] The skiffs, laden with men, were poled against the current, while bodies of footmen and horsemen marched along the bank.

After going a short distance up stream the horses and men were ferried to the farther bank, the boats were drawn up on the shore and left, with a guard of forty men, and the rest of the troops started overland against the town of Old Chillicothe, fifty or sixty miles distant.