Of this number one, the interpreter and incidentally the best hunter of the party, was a half-breed; two were French voyageurs; one was a negro servant of Clark; nine were volunteers from Kentucky; and fourteen were regular soldiers.

Hence fourteen was a sacred number.

Fourteen of the eighty-one souls constituting the Donner Party were boys and girls between the ages of nineteen and twelve years; twenty-six ranged from twelve years to a year and a half; and seven were nursing babes.

Fourteen of the forty-three musicians were soloists upon their several instruments; some half a dozen of them were already known as composers.

All the slaves but fourteen were males, and all but thirteen were serving life terms.

There were thirty-four boys in Outwood's, of whom about fourteen were much the same size and build as Mike.