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gan, 5 and the McAfees. 6 But hardly had they built 

 their slight log-cabins, covered with brush or bark, 

 and broken ground for the corn-planting, when 

 some small Indian war-parties, including that which 

 had attacked Boone's company, appeared among 

 them. Several men were "killed and sculped," as 

 Boone phrased it; and the panic among the rest 

 was very great, insomuch that many forthwith set 

 out to return. Boone was not so easily daunted; 

 and he at once sent a special messenger to hurry 

 forward the main body under Henderson, writing 

 to the latter with quiet resolution and much good 

 sense : 



"My advice to you, sir, is to come or send as 

 soon as possible. Your company is desired greatly, 

 for the people are very uneasy, but are will- 

 ing to stay and venture their lives with you, and 

 now is the time to flusterate [frustrate?] the inten- 

 tions of the Indians, and keep the country whilst 

 we are in it. If we give way to them now, it will 

 ever be the case/' 7 



Henderson had started off as soon as he had fin- 

 ished the treaty. He took wagons with him, but 

 was obliged to halt and leave them in Powell's 

 Valley, for beyond that even so skilful a pathfinder 

 and road-maker as Boone had not been able to find 



5 Benjamin Logan; there were many of the family in 

 Kentucky. It was a common name along the border; the 

 Indian chief Logan had been named after one of the Penn- 

 sylvania branch. 



6 McAfee MSS. ' Boone's letter. 



