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Show SKETCH OF TJAN1EL BOONS. B -Hli Physique Combined Strength and r f- Activity. B 4 In his "booli, "Tho "Way to thj I At '"Went," "Emerson Hough Rives HXf teketches of threo famous pioneers. HPY Of Danlol Lloono ho says: "Boone V i -was neither a tall nor a thin man. H Ho was not angular uor bony. Ills framo was covered not with cloying j fat, but with firm and caRlly playing muscles, and ho carried none of tho useless tissue of the man of clvlliza-Itlon. clvlliza-Itlon. His weight was 'about 176 pounds.' Audubon, who met him late In his life, rays: 'He approached the 'gigantic In stature. His chest was broad and prominent and his muscu-liar muscu-liar powers were visible in every limb. ;Hls countenance gavo Indication ot his great courage, enterprise and perseverance.' per-severance.' Yet In person Booyne did not quite reach tho six-foot mark, 'but was Just below flvo feet and ten Inches In stature, some say flvo feet elfiht Inches, being therefore of exactly ex-actly that build which good Judges of men esteem to be most doslrablo for .combined strength, activity and endurance. en-durance. Ho was rather broad shouldered; shoul-dered; that In to say, his shoulders nicely overhung his hips. All agree sthat ho was of 'robust and powerful proportions.' " |