Their hunters kept them supplied with game, and each man carried a small quantity of parched corn.
The company was ordered to the mouth of the Kentucky to meet the armed row-boat, sent by Clark from the Falls.

On the way Patterson was much annoyed by a "very profane, swearing man" from Bryan's Station, named Aaron Reynolds.

Reynolds was a good-hearted, active young fellow, with a biting tongue, not only given to many oaths, but likewise skilled in the rough, coarse banter so popular with the backwoodsmen.

After having borne with him four days Patterson made up his mind that he would have to reprove him, and, if no amendment took place, send him home.

He waited until, at a halt, Reynolds got a crowd round him, and began to entertain them "with oaths and wicked expressions," whereupon he promptly stepped in "and observed to him that he was a very wicked and profane man," and that both the company as well as he, the Captain, would thank him to desist.