I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

I'm going now. My time has come.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.