Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . and enjoy their triumph, or lament their ill success. Booneand his party were conducted to the old town of Chillicothe, wherethey remained untill the following March. No journal was writtenduring this period by either Boone, or his party. We are only in-formed that his mild and pa-tient equanimity wroughtpowerfully upon the Indians ;/ that he was adopted into ajj family, and uniformly treated/ with the utmost ^a One fact
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . and enjoy their triumph, or lament their ill success. Booneand his party were conducted to the old town of Chillicothe, wherethey remained untill the following March. No journal was writtenduring this period by either Boone, or his party. We are only in-formed that his mild and pa-tient equanimity wroughtpowerfully upon the Indians ;/ that he was adopted into ajj family, and uniformly treated/ with the utmost ^a One fact is given us which/^ shows his acute observation,^^^^^n ^^^ knowledge of the various shootingBooKK TAKEN TO DETROIT. matchcs to which he was in- vited, he took care not to beat too often. He knew that nofeeling is more painful than that of inferiority, and that the mosteffectual way of keeping them in a good humor with him, was to keepthem in a good humor with themselves. lie, therefore, only shotwell enough, to make it an honor to beat him, and thus found him-self a universal favorite. On the 10th of March, 1778, Boone was conducted to Detroit,. ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE. 51 where Governor Hamilton himself offered £100 for his ransom; butso strong was the affection of the Indians for their prisoner, that itwas positively refused. Several English gentlemen, touched withsympathy for his misfortunes, made pressing offers of money andother articles, but Boone steadily refused to receive benefits whichhe could never return. The offer was honorable to them, and therefusal was dictated by rather too refined a spirit of anxiety on account of his wife and children, was incessant,and the more intolerable, as he dared not excite the suspicion of theIndians by any indication of a wish to rejoin them. Upon his return from Detroit, he observed that one hundred andfifty warriors of various tribes had assembled, painted and equippedfor an expedition against Boo
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