Autobiography 1857 Draft 2
we cut down a large cotton wood tree, and ^in ◊ two days^ dug out
a canoe 4 feet wide & 12 feet long, put on a pair of oars and ^then^ rowed
down the Arkansas river, 125 miles, to little Rock, begging our food
by the way, a meal at a time, as we had opportunity; after visiting
little Rock we travelled down the river 10 miles, and tied up our
canoe on the east bank and stopped with Mr. Jones, I preached
