Daniel Boone, wilderness scout (1922) (14766917165)

Identifier: danielboonewilder00whit (find matches)
Title: Daniel Boone, wilderness scout
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946 Schuyler, Remington, 1884-1955
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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ssaved by the skin of its teeth. From this time forward the Indians seemed to pinall their hopes on the tunnel they were digging.Their persistency in the hated manual labour wasremarkable. On their side the settlers continuedto beat off the numerous smaller attacks, to replyto the continuous fire, and to attempt to the bestof their ability to dig countermines that would haveat least a chance of effectiveness. The tower wasalways occupied by the best marksmen alert totake snap shots at any warrior who exposed him-self on his way to or from the tunnel and the camp.These men were old hunters, familiar with the Shaw-nee language, and they whiled away their time ban-tering with their enemies with what Ranck calls acurious courtesy. *What are you red rascals doing down there.^he reports an old hunter as shouting. Digging, would be the return yell, *Blow youall to the devil soon. What you do? *0h, would be the cheerful reply, Ve are diggingto meet you, and intend to bury five hundred of you.
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He loas out to kill in his madness; yet he refused to permitthe torture of prisoners Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout 235 And as the terrible days and nights succeeded oneanother hopes faded as to the arrival of the re en-forcements. The men from Holston should longsince have arrived. The extending delay mightwell mean that they had not started, might not becoming at all; and re enforcement seemed the onlyhope. The savages had unending resources, andfor once unending patience. The garrison haddwindling supplies, dwindling energies. Sooner orlater they must succumb. At this exact periodRanck reports their condition as follows: The outlook was black indeed. It was raining,and the pent-up people could slake their thirst, butthey were worn out by the labour, the heat, andincessant watching and by privations, for the long-drawn-out provisions were about exhausted, andthough some of the miserably reduced livestock re-mained, the pioneers had already reached the star-vation point. The tunnel h