CHAPTER VIII.
Life on the Obion.
Hunting Adventures .-- The Voyage up the River .-- Scenes in the Cabin .-- Return Home .-- Removal of the Family .-- Crockett's Riches .-- A Perilous Enterprise .-- Reasons for his Celebrity .-- Crockett's Narrative .-- A Bear-Hunt .-- Visit to Jackson .-- Again a Candidate for the Legislature .-- Electioneering and Election.
The next day after building the cabin, to which Crockett intended to move his family, it began to rain, as he says, "rip-roariously." The river rapidly rose, and the boatmen were ready to resume their voyage.
Crockett stepped out into the forest and shot a deer, which he left as food for Abram Henry and his little boy, who were to remain in the cabin until his return.

He expected to be absent six or seven days.

The stream was very sluggish.

By poling, as it was called, that is, by pushing the boat with long poles, they reached the encumbrance caused by the hurricane, where they stopped for the night.
In the morning, as soon as the day dawned, Crockett, thinking it impossible for them to get through the fallen timber that day, took his rifle and went into the forest in search of game.

He had gone but a short distance when he came across a fine buck.