For six months Boon and his companions enjoyed such hunting as had hardly fallen to men of their race since the Germans came out of the Hercynian forest.[12] In December, however, they were attacked by Indians.

Boon and a companion were captured; and when they escaped they found their camp broken up, and the rest of the party scattered and gone home.

About this time they were joined by Squire Boon, the brother of the great hunter, and himself a woodsman of but little less skill, together with another adventurer; the two had travelled through the immense wilderness, partly to explore it and partly with the hope of finding the original adventurers, which they finally succeeded in doing more by good luck than design.

Soon afterwards Boon's companion in his first short captivity was again surprised by the Indians, and this time was slain[13]--the first of the thousands of human beings with whose life-blood Kentucky was bought.

The attack was entirely unprovoked.