They had meal for corn bread; and it will also be remembered that they had sugar, and ten gallons of whiskey.
The deerskins were easily tanned into soft and pliant leather.

They all knew how to cut these skins, and with tough sinews to sew them into hunting-shirts, moccasins, and other needed garments.

Sitting Indian-fashion on mattresses or cushions of bearskin, with just enough to do gently to interest the mind, with no anxiety or thought even about the future, they would loiter listlessly through the long hours of the summer days.
Occasionally two or three Indians, on a hunting excursion, would visit the cabin.

These Indians were invariably friendly.

Crockett had no more apprehension that they would trouble him than he had that the elk or the deer would make a midnight attack upon his cabin.