gold, for very restlessness of spirit, if they grow toward an imperial
issue, have all thus a prescriptive and recognized ingredient of
heroism. But when the immediate motive is as grand as the ultimate hope
was lofty, and the ultimate success splendid, then, to use an expression
of Bacon's," "the music is fuller."

In the hope that the privations and heroic conduct of those who are the
subjects of the story, in the following chapters, may prove as
interesting to the public as they did to the writer, when he first
learned the history of such heroism, the writer submits them to the
reader.

_JANUARY_, 1889.




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YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS;
A Story of Early Colonial Days. i

PREFACE. 1

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER I.
FIRST EXPERIENCE OF COLONIAL LIFE, 1769-70. 10