JAMES HARROD, OF HARRODSBURG. 239 
again before he 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 watching 
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 sheiter 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 wach 
needed in the elementary condition of the society they were 
organizing. All new comers were their children—they were 
