Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . upon the Yadkinriver in North Carolina, and set out, in company with five others,to explore the country of Kentucky. On the 7th of June they reached Ked river, and from a neighbor-ing eminence were enabled to survey the vast plain of they built a cabin, in order to afford them a shelter from the rain which had fallen in immensequantities on their march, andremained in a great measure sta-tionary until December, kilhng a
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . upon the Yadkinriver in North Carolina, and set out, in company with five others,to explore the country of Kentucky. On the 7th of June they reached Ked river, and from a neighbor-ing eminence were enabled to survey the vast plain of they built a cabin, in order to afford them a shelter from the rain which had fallen in immensequantities on their march, andremained in a great measure sta-tionary until December, kilhng quantity of game imme-^ diately around them. Immenseherds of buffalo ranged throughthe forest in every direction,feeding upon the leaves of thecane or the rich and spontaneou-sfields of the 22d of December, Booneand John Stuart, one of his companions, left their encampment, andfollowing one of the numerous paths which the buffalo had madethrough the cane, they plunged boldly into the interior of the had as yet seen no Indians, and the country had been reportedas totally uninhabited. This was true in a strict sense, for although. DANIEL BOONE. ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE. 41 the southern and northwestern tribes were in the habit of huntinghere as upon neutral ground, yet not a single wigwam had beenerected, nor did the land bear the slightest mark of having everbeen cultivated. The different tribes would fall in with each other,and from the fierce conflicts which generally followed these casualrencounters, the country had been known among them by the nameof the darJc and bloody ground! The two adventurers soonlearned the additional danger to which they were exposed. Whileroving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, and admiring therank growth of vegetation, and the variety of timber which markedthe fertility of the soil, they were suddenly alarmed by a party ofIndians, who, springing from their place of concealment, rushedupon them with a rapidity w
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