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dians. Boone and a companion were captured ; and 

 when they escaped they found their camp broken up, 

 and the rest of the party scattered and gone home. 

 About this time they were joined by Squire Boone, 

 the brother of the great hunter, and himself a 

 woodsman of but little less skill, together with an- 

 other adventurer; the two had traveled through the 

 immense wilderness, partly to explore it and partly 

 with the hope of finding the original adventurers, 

 which they finally succeeded in doing more by good 

 luck than design. Soon afterward Boone's compan- 

 ion in his first short captivity was again surprised 

 by the Indians, and this time was slain 13 the first 

 of the thousands of human beings with whose life- 

 blood Kentucky was bought. The attack was en- 

 tirely unprovoked. The Indians had wantonly shed 

 the first blood. The land belonged to no one tribe, 

 but was hunted over by all, each feeling jealous of 

 every other intruder; they attacked the whites, not 

 because the whites had wronged them, but because 

 their invariable policy was to kill any strangers on 

 any grounds over which they themselves ever 

 hunted, no matter what man had the best right there- 

 to. The Kentucky hunters were promptly taught 

 that in this no-man's-land, teeming with game and 



tiersmen of to-day, the old German singer calls the Wissent 

 or Bison a buffalo European sportsmen now committing an 

 equally bad blunder by giving it the name of the extinct 

 aurochs. Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard 

 drinking, boastful hero of Nibelung fame used a "spur 

 hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee 

 used a track-hound a thousand years later. 

 13 His name .was John Stewart. 



