Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

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

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.