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according to appointment at the old camp. Other 

 hunters also now came into the Kentucky wilderness, 

 and Boone joined a small party of them for a short 

 time. Such a party of hunters is always glad to 

 have anything wherewith to break the irksome mo- 

 notony of the long evenings passed round the camp 

 fire; and a book or a greasy pack of cards was as 

 welcome in a camp of Kentucky riflemen in 1770 as 

 it is to a party .of Rocky Mountain hunters in 1888. 

 Boone has recorded in his own quaint phraseology 

 an incident of his life during this summer, which 

 shows how eagerly such a little band of frontiersmen 

 read a book, and how real its characters became 

 to their minds. He was encamped with five other 

 men on Red River, and they had with them for their 

 "amusement the history of Samuel Gulliver's travels, 

 wherein he gave an account of his young master, 

 Glumdelick, careing [sic] him on a market day for 

 a show to a town called Lulbegrud." In the party 

 who, amid such strange surroundings, read and list- 

 ened to Dean Swift's writings was a young man 

 named Alexander Neely. One night he came into 

 camp with two Indian scalps, taken from a Shawnee 

 village he had found on a creek running into the 

 river; and he announced to the circle of grim wil- 

 derness veterans that "he had been that day to Lulbe- 

 grud, and had killed two Brobdignags in their capi- 

 tal." To this day the creek by which the two luck- 

 less Shawnees lost their lives is known as Lulbegrud 

 Creek. 15 



15 Deposition of Daniel Boone, September 15, 1796. Certi- 

 fied copy from Deposition Book No. i, page 156, Clark 



