gentlemen will be apprized of the imminent danger they are
daily in."

Boone and Stoner journeyed overland to Harrodsburg, where
Col. James Harrod and thirty men were making improvements
and laying out the town. The thrifty Boone secured a good
lot, hastily built a claim cabin, and proceeded on his
tour. At Fontaine Blue, three miles below Harrodsburg, the
two scouts found another party of surveyors, whom they warned;
and in going down the Kentucky River came across Capt. John
Floyd's surveying party,--eight men, who had left Preston's
house for Kentucky, April 9,--who agreed to meet them farther
down the river. But circumstances prevented a reunion, and
Floyd's band penetrated through the wilderness on their own
account, and had a painful journey of sixteen days' duration
before reaching Russell's Fort on Clinch River. Meanwhile,
Boone and Stoner descended to the mouth of the Kentucky, and
thence to the Falls of the Ohio, and found more surveyors at
Mann's Lick, four miles southeast. Indians were making bloody
forays through the district, and the scouts had frequent
thrilling adventures. Finally, after having been absent
sixty-one days and travelled 800 miles, they reached Russell's
on the Clinch, in safety. Russell was absent on the Point
Pleasant campaign, and Boone set out with a party of recruits
to reinforce him, but was ordered back to defend the Clinch
settlements. He was busy at this task until the close of
the war. He was present at the Watauga treaty, March 17, 1775;
later that year, he led another band to Kentucky, and early
in April built Fort Boone, on Kentucky River, "a little below
Big Lick," the nucleus of the Henderson colony.--R. G. T.

[14] The party numbered about four hundred men. The line of
march was about ninety miles in length, as estimated by the
zig-zag course pursued.--R. G. T.

[15] They were Jonathan Zane, Thomas Nicholson and Tady
Kelly. A better woodsman than the first named of these three,
perhaps never lived.

[16] Doddridge locates Wapatomica "about sixteen miles below
the present Coshocton." Butterfield (_History of the Girtys_)
places it "just below the present Zanesville, in Logan county,
Ohio, not a great distance from Mac-a-c