I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
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.