Vie et l'époque du Colonel Daniel Boone, comprenant l'histoire des débuts de la colonisation du Kentucky . ling-les de le suivre,accouru et s'empressa de sa cabine, où il hadthe moyens de défense. En dépit de l'narrowescape, il ne pouvait pas résister à la tentation, après re-traitement des quelque quinze ou vingt mètres, à regarder roundand voir le succès de sa réalisation. Les Indiens,aveuglé et presque suffoqué, étaient les étirements&Lt ;;héritier mains et sentiment au sujet dans différentes directions, en l'appelant par son nom et en le maudissant d'un andthemselves-rogue, pour des imbéciles. Le vieil homme, dans dire thestory, IMI

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Life and times of Colonel Daniel Boone, comprising history of the early settlement of Kentucky . ling them from following him, rushed out and hastened to his cabin, where he hadthe means of defense. Notwithstanding the narrowescape, he could not resist the temptation, after re-treating some fifteen or twenty yards, to look roundand see the success of his achievement. The Indians, blinded and nearly suffocated, were stretching out<;heir hands and feeling about in different directions, calling him by name and cursing him for a-rogue, andthemselves for fools. The old man, in telling thestory, imitated their gestures and tones of voice withgreat glee. Emigration to Kentucky was now rapidly on theincrease, and many new settlements were formed.The means of establishing comfortable homesteads in-creased. Horses, cattle, and swine were rapidly increasing in number; and trading in various commo-dities became more general. From Philadelphia, merchandise was transported to Pittsburg on packhorses, and thence taken down the Ohio Eiver in flat-boats and distributed among the settlements on its. - ii i i »J n hi hi v ??? HUNTING IN KENTUCKY. 241 banks. Country stores, land speculators, and papermoney made their appearance, affording a clearaugury of the future activity of the West in com-mercial industry and enterprise. Most of the settlers came from the interior of NorthCarolina and Virginia; and brought with them themanners and customs of those States. These man-ners and customs were primitive enough. The fol-lowing exceedingly graphic description, which wetranscribe from Doddridges Notes, will afford thereader a competent idea of rural life in the times ofDaniel Boone. Hunting.—This was an important part of the em-ployment of the early settlers of this country. For someyears the woods supplied them with the greater amountof their subsistence, and with regard to some families, at certain times, the whole of it; for it was no uncom--mon thing for families to live several month

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