Leaving North Carolina — Joined by a Large Company at Powell's Valley — Glowing Anticipations — Attacked by In dians in Cumberland Gap — Daniel Boone's Eldest Son Killed — Discouragement — Return to Clinch River Settle ment — The Check Providential — Boone acts as a Guide to a Party of Surveyors — Commissioned Captain by Gov ernor Dunmore, and takes command of Three Garrisons — Battle of Point Pleasant — Attends the making of a Treaty with Indians at Wataga — Employed by Colonel Richard Henderson — Kentucky claimed by the Cherokees -james Harrod — The First Settlement in Kentucky Boone leads a Company into Kentucky — Attacked by In dians — Erection of the Fort at Boonesborough — Colonel Richard Henderson takes Possession of Kentucky — The Republic of Transylvania — His Scheme receives its Death blow — Perils of the Frontier — A Permanent Settlement made on Kentucky Soil.