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Updated: May 28, 2025
How the fleet of bateaus and canoes could be held in the vicinity for many hours without suspicions being aroused as to their proposed use, was a question hard to answer. The captain of the scouts sent two of his men out upon the trail by which they expected Ethan Allen and the troops under him to advance. Meanwhile Enoch Harding had not given up the search for the escaped spy.
He was near Colonel Allen when word was passed to that brave leader that those in the boats numbered but eighty-three. "Eighty-three!" exclaimed the Green Mountain hero. "And every man worth three red-coats. Once we get within those walls and I'll answer for them. Yet, sirs, I would that we had not been so long delayed on the road, or that there were more bateaus to our hand."
Bolderwood held the title of a long strip of land along the lake shore, but he had never built a cabin. A shack, or hut, of branches was all the shelter the trio enjoyed. Here the ranger and Enoch found several of their friends beside Smith and Brown in waiting. The shore of the lake on this side had been fairly scoured for bateaus.
Finally, in his wanderings, he came to the cove where the scout who had spent the day inside the fort, had landed. The bateaus were on the other side of the cove; the canoe the scout had used was alone in the shadow of a big oak, although a sentinel watched the bateaus.
Once out in the open lake it would be impossible to overtake him. Then Enoch wished he had aroused his comrades; at least the sentinel guarding the bateaus would have heard his cry and come to his assistance. But now if the spy was to be stopped it must be by his individual effort.
"I'm I'm all right," the youth declared, finally shaking off the feeling which had numbed him. "Let me get a grip on your boat there! Now you can paddle ashore. I'll not lose my hold this time." "Right it is, then." The rescuer paddled slowly toward the bateaus.
Its profitable nature was the chief reason why the British persistently clung to the posts on the Lakes, and stirred up the Indians to keep the American settlers out of all lands that were tributary to the British fur merchants. From Kentucky and the Cumberland country the peltries were sometimes sent east by packtrain, and sometimes up the Ohio in bateaus or canoes. Boone's Trading Ventures.
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