Chapter II

Kenton and his Friends Visit Boonesborough--Desperate Encounter
with Indians--Proceeds with Two Companions to Reconnoitre
an Indian Town on the Little Miami--Captured while Making
Off with a Number of Horses--Brutal Treatment--Bound to the
Stake and Runs the Gauntlet--Friendship of Simon Girty, the
Renegade--Finally Saved by an Indian Trader--Removed to
Detroit, and Escapes--Commands a Company in General Clark's
Expedition--Receives Good News--Visits Virginia--Death of his
Father--Reduced to Poverty--Removes to Urbana, Ohio--Elected
Brigadier-General--His Conversion--His Last Days 222

LEWIS WETZEL.

Birth of Lewis Wetzel--His Father Killed by Indians, and
Himself and Brother carried off Prisoners--Their Remarkable
Escape--Murder of an Indian--Serves in Crawford's
Expedition--Pursued by Four Indians, and Kills Three--Escape
from the Custody of General Harmar--Wetzel's Hunts for
Indians--Assists a Relative to Recover his Betrothed from
Savages--Old Age and Death 251

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

COLONEL DANIEL BOONE.