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feet deep. It had eight oars. In the center was our cabin, which was twenty by sixteen, and contained, of course, our provisions and valuables, . . and our stove. This was a patent range peculiar to those days and quite wonderful in its way. It was made of a wooden box lined with clay. It had a hole in the top for a kettle, and another through which the smoke passed to an aperture in the roof of our cabin, left for that purpose. . . Our crew consisted of ten persons, including a man and his wife and one child, who were going to migrate. . . There are many eddies along the river and at them we tried to tie up at night in order to be out of the current. . . From Pittsburg to Cincinnati, five hundred miles, the river being broad and deep and free from snags, we could travel night and day. . . At one point in our trip we saw a raft stranded on an island; but the Captain did not seem to take the matter very seriously to heart, and answered our salutations by singing and dancing and lustily waving his hat as we passed by. . . At Limestone, [Maysville] Ky., seventy miles east of Cincinnati,