shooters stationed in ambuscade, shot numbers of them in their

canoes, and compelled the others to return. brother and sister were among the slain.

Logan's mother,

These transactions were soon followed by another outrage, which, though of less magnitude, was not less atrocious. An aged and inoffensive Lenape chief, named the Bald Eagle, while r eturning

was

from a

visit to

the fort at the north of the Kanhawa,

shot while alone in his canoe.

Not satisfied

with this

cowardly act, the perpetrator of the murder seized the canoe, tore the scalp from the head of his victim, placed the body in a sitting posture in the canoe, and sent it adrift down the stream to bear to the

friends of the venerated sachem the most

exas

perating evidence of the hostility which had been committed. At about the same time, Silver Heels, a favorite chief of the

Shawanoes^ was murdered by trespassers upon the Indian terri tory, and in less than a month forty victims were added to the These acts thoroughly aroused the rapacity of the whites. tribes, and the Lenapes and Skawanoes, under Cornstalk, and the

them intoxicated, fell upon them and knocked them in the head, and scalped them that soon after two other Indians came over to see what detained their friends, and were served in the same

them were killed, who dropped into the and two others they observed fall

river,

peared uneasy, and six of their men were coming across the river to see after their people, who approaching near the shore,