July 23, 1842 ~ Saturday
JULY 23
rd
The time had come when we were under the
necessity of having a new stock of paper & other
materials for the & book binders
which could not be purchased short of
& appointed me to go to St Lowis & purchase
the articles & as it fell to my lot to perform
the journey & business. I aranged my affairs
& on Saturday this 23
rd of July I went up to
the steam boat landing to watch for a boat,
I stoped at Br which was near the landing
at which place I spent four days & nights
watching for a boat expecting one evry hour, about
noon on the 27
th a boat hove in sight which we
were truly glad to see it was the Galena we hailed &
she stoped & took three of us on board, viz Messrs
, , & myself, we found the boat
to be heavy loaded with led having 7,000 pigs on board
& the water being low we soon saw we should have
a slow journey the boat crossed the to
stoped & empted the boat of its load into lighters
& the hands had a tremendious fight while doing it
spent the night at Montrose
July 28, 1842 ~ Thursday
28
th Left & rode to Nashville this made
five days in sight of
Nashvill after leaving
home we left Nashville & went over the rapids to
12 miles we run on to the rocks many times
& spent the day getting off
July 29, 1842 ~ Friday
29
th Friday Left rainy morning stoped
at . we past run on to a Sand Bank
about dedrain & lay till morning
July 30, 1842 ~ Saturday
30
th Got of[f] the sand bank at 7 oclock passed Dedran
& run on to another sand bank which
hendered the boat 6 hours [FIGURE] I took a severe
cold which settelled into the Billious fever &
I was exceding ill the remainder of the journey
we passed by which looks like a flourishing
town we run onto another sand bar about dark
July 31, 1842 ~ Sunday
31
st Sunday we stoped at for refreshments
passed by & run on to a sand bar & lay all
