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Updated: June 18, 2025
As early as 1787 an observer at Pittsburgh reported that in six weeks he saw fifty flatboats set off for the downriver settlements; in 1788 forty-five hundred emigrants were said to have passed Fort Harmar between February and June. Most of these people were bound for Kentucky or Tennessee.
The following morning the steam-launch was sent downriver, and we took to the boats and paddled a short stage to Bawang Takun, another large Kayan village, where we stayed over-night to give the people time to prepare their boats and the Resident the opportunity for some judicial inquiries.
For many of these people had not travelled so far downriver before, and their delight in the piano was only equalled by their admiration for that most wonderful of all things, the big boat that goes up stream without paddles, the Resident's fast steam-launch.
Yes, that was he Lourenço Moraes, the best comrade one ever had. He has gone to tell the coronel of your arrival. Have you met with an accident downriver?" He moved a thumb meaningly toward the only remaining member of the crew. "Yeah," grimly. "Bad accident." Tim tapped his pistol significently, raised five fingers, winked, and twitched his head toward the Peruvian.
By the third of October Buford had the boats in action, ferrying across men, equipment, and artillery in a steady stream of night-and-day oar labor. The stout General, mounted on a big mule, a large animal to carry a large man, gave the scouts new orders. "Try downriver, boys. We're in a pinchers here, and they may be goin' to nip us hard!"
He could sell them to rubber men or miners and make good money, eh, Lourenço?" "Si." "Sure. And that's why he wanted to kill off his Peruvians they knew too much; probably were trying to bleed him for hush money. He must have a regular slave route and a gang of border cutthroats to do his raiding men who don't go downriver. Murderer, slaver wonder how many other crimes are on his soul."
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