The life and adventures of Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky : interspersed with incidents in the early annals of the country . s periodwas among the happiest in his life; that during it,care and melancholy, and a painful sense of loneli-ness, were alike unknown to him. We must not, however, suppose that the lonelyhunter was capable only of feeling the stern andsullen pleasures of the savage. On the contrary,ne was a man of the kindliest nature, and of thetenderest affections. We have read of verses, insolid columns, said to have been made by him. Wewould be sorry to believe him the
The life and adventures of Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky : interspersed with incidents in the early annals of the country . s periodwas among the happiest in his life; that during it,care and melancholy, and a painful sense of loneli-ness, were alike unknown to him. We must not, however, suppose that the lonelyhunter was capable only of feeling the stern andsullen pleasures of the savage. On the contrary,ne was a man of the kindliest nature, and of thetenderest affections. We have read of verses, insolid columns, said to have been made by him. Wewould be sorry to believe him the author of theseverses, for they would redound little to his honor asa poet. But, though we believe he did not attemptto make bad verses, the woodsman was essentially LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. 65 a poet. He loved nature in all her aspects of beau-ty and grandeur with the intensest admiration. Henever wearied of admiring the charming naturallandscapes spread before him; and, to his latestdays, his spirit in old age seemed to revive in theseason of spring, and when he visited the fires of thesugar camps, blazing in the open maple LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. CHAPTER V. Boone is pursued by the Indians, and eludes their pursuit—He encoun-ters and kills a bear—The return of his brother with ammunition—They explore the country—Boone kills a panther on the back of abuffalo—They return to North Carolina. Boones brother had departed on the first of the period of his absence, which lasted un-til the twenty-second of July, he considered himselfthe only white person west of the mountains. It istrue, some time in this year, (1770,) probably in thelatter part of it, an exploring party led by GeneralJames Knox, crossed the Alleghany mountains. Butthis exploring expedition confined its discoveriesprincipally to the country south and west of the riv-er Kentucky. This exploration was desultory, andwithout much result. Boone never met with them, orknew that they were in the cou
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