The freshets and the maladministration combined to produce a dearth, almost a famine, in the land.

The evils were felt most severely in Vincennes, where Helm, the captain of the post, though a brave and capable man, was utterly unable to procure supplies of any kind.

He did not hear of Clark's success against Piqua and Chillicothe until October.
Then he wrote to one of the officers at the Falls, saying that he was "sitting by the fire with a piece of lightwood and two ribs of an old buffloe, which is all the meat we have seen this many days.

I congratulate your success against the Shawanohs, but there's never doubts where that brave Col.

Clark commands; we well know the loss of him in Illinois....