the rivers and swamps were dreadful by rafts of timber driving down the former and the great fallen trees floating in the latter....

Being forced to wade deep through cane swamps or woody thickets, it proved very troublesome to keep my firearms dry on which, as a second means, my life depended." Nevertheless Adair defeated the Governor's attempt to steal his trade, and later on published the whole story in the Charleston press and sent in a statement of his claims to the Assembly, with frank observations on His Excellency himself.

We gather that his bold disregard of High Personages set all Charleston in an uproar! Adair is tantalizingly modest about his own deeds.

He devotes pages to prove that an Indian rite agrees with the Book of Leviticus but only a paragraph to an exploit of courage and endurance such as that ride and swim for the Indian trade.

We have to read between the lines to find the man; but he well repays the search.