Crockett had now discharged his debt, and prepared to return to his cabin.

There was a light skiff attached to the large flat-bottomed boat in which they had ascended the river.

This skiff Crockett took, and, accompanied by a young man by the name of Flavius Harris, who had decided to go back with him, speedily paddled their way down the stream to his cabin.
There were now four occupants of this lonely, dreary hut, which was surrounded by forests and fallen trees and briers and brambles.

They all went to work vigorously in clearing some land for a corn field, that they might lay in a store for the coming winter.

The spring was far advanced, and the season for planting nearly gone.