48 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
its violence menaced the very spot un which he 
stood. With consternation he was compelled 
to watch its awful progress, and grateful to the 
Divine Disposer, he beheld at length nature as- 
sume her wonted aspect, and found himself un- 
injured. Having business of an urgent nature, 
instead of returning to the adjacent town, he 
boldly followed the pathway of the storm, so 
tangled as to cause him innumerable difficulties; 
nevertheless he pursued his way, now aiding 
his horse to leap the mangled remains of trees, 
now scrambling himself through the shattered 
branches by which he was hemmed in. For 
hundreds of miles the traces of the hurricane 
were visible; its ravages perceptible even on 
the mountain summits adjoining the great Penn 
sylvanian Pine Forest. 
Audubon’s wanderings, thus prolific of extra 
ordinary events, were not less so of amusing 
incidents, necessarily connected with the many 
remarkable characters who met his observation. 
One of the striking among them was that of the 
renowned and dauntless leader of the emigrant 
bands into Kentucky, Daniel, or as he was 
courteously termed in the state, Colonel Bcone. 
It was Audubon’s fortune to remain under the 
same roof with this extraordinary man, whose 
appearance and gigantic stature well befitted a 
hunter of the woods. His chest was broad, and 
