We are not furnished with any of the details of this wonderful journey of a solitary child through a wilderness of one or two hundred miles.

We know not how he slept at night, or how he obtained food by day.

He informs us that he was at length overtaken by a drover, who had been to Virginia with a herd of cattle, and was returning to Knoxville riding one horse and leading another.
The man was amazed in meeting a mere child in such lonely wilds, and upon hearing his story, his kind heart was touched.

David was a frail little fellow, whose weight would be no burden for a horse, and the good man directed him to mount the animal which he led.

The boy had begun to be very tired.