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

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

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

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

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.

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.

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