The stream was navigable fourteen hundred miles from its mouth.
Arkansas was then but a Territory, two hundred and forty miles long and two hundred and twenty-eight broad.

The sparsely scattered population of the Territory amounted to but about thirty thousand.

Following up the windings of the river three hundred miles, one came to a cluster of a few straggling huts, called Little Rock, which constitutes now the capital of the State.
Crockett ascended the river in the steamer, and, unencumbered with baggage, save his rifle, hastened to a tavern which he saw at a little distance from the shore, around which there was assembled quite a crowd of men.

He had been so accustomed to public triumphs that he supposed that they had assembled in honor of his arrival.

"Strange as it may seem," he says, "they took no more notice of me than if I had been Dick Johnson, the wool-grower.