JAMES HARROD, OF HARRODSBURG. 239 



again before lie concluded to try the manoeuvre over; the cap 

 was cautiously elevated again, and this time drew but one 

 fire, for the Indians had taken warning. It effected all that 

 Harrod required, however, for it disclosed the exact position 

 of these two. He had only known the direction before, but 

 not the position, as his eyes had been occupied in watchino- 

 the one on the right— in less than half a minute, the Indian 

 who had fired, exposed part of his body in sending home his 

 rod. Harrod shot him through the heart. 



The other Indian commenced a rapid retreat. He got off, 

 but Harrod thought he carried a third ball with him. They 

 had been entirely deceived by the manceuvre of the cap, and 

 the survivor was clearly of the opinion, that, as they had killed 

 two, there must be several white men there yet. Harrod pro- 

 ceeded at his leisure to dress the two deer they had brought 

 down, and that night entered the station, to the great joy^'of 

 all, with a full load of meat. 



The benevolence of Harrod seems to have been equal to 

 his energy. His hut, one of the first erected in the country, 

 became at once the nucleus of a station— thither the sur- 

 veyors, the speculators, the hunters and emigrants flocked 

 for shelter and protection, and the names of Harrodsburg and 

 Boonesborough became the first identified in the minds of 

 weary adventurers of every grade, to this dangerous region, 

 with the prospect of rest and the hope of security. Other 

 huts had rapidly gone up around his, until more secure de- 

 fences had become necessary, and a fort was built. 



Thus, under the shelter of these two names, Boone and 

 Harrod, the permanent occupation of Kentucky by the white 

 race commenced. 



These men, though both comparatively young, seem to 

 have reproduced in themselves perfectly the primitive type 

 of the ancient patriarchal character, which was so much 

 needed in the elementary condition of the society they were 

 organizing. All new comers were their children— they were 



