With economy, a moderate talent, and habits of industry, he was well aware that, in those regions, the means of life are with little difficulty attainable by those who are worthy and will adventure.

Let us now return to the wayfarer, whom we have left in that wildest region of the then little-settled state of Georgia--doubly wild as forming the debatable land between the savage and the civilized--partaking of the ferocity of the one and the skill, cunning, and cupidity of the other..