noon
`` Shall we start now ? '' inquired Peleg , rising at once as he spoke . '' ` Twill be well to do so . The sun is now two hours high , and we must both be back here in camp by noon . '' As he finished speaking , Daniel Boone departed silently into the forest and his example was promptly followed by the younger scout . The young hunter had been gone almost an hour and as yet had discovered only a few signs of the presence of their enemies . He was near the bank of a stream some twenty feet or more in width when , glancing behind him , he saw two Indians swiftly approaching .