ror to
the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania." A brother, and later
the successor of King Beaver, his camp was at the mouth of
Beaver Creek, which empties into the Ohio twenty-six miles
below "the forks" (site of Pittsburg). Christopher Gist visited
him November 24, 1750. In 1759, when Fort Pitt was built,
Shingiss moved up Beaver Creek to Kuskuskis on the Mahoning,
and finally to the Muskingum. The land about the mouth of
Beaver Creek is called "Shingis Old Town" in the Ft. Stanwix
treaty, 1784.--R. G. T.

[2] The numbers here set down and those given below, are as
they were ascertained by Capt. Hutchins, who visited the most
of the tribes for purpose of learning their population in
1768.

[3] A tradition among the Delawares says that formerly the
Catawbas came near one of their hunting camps and remaining in
ambush at night sent two or three of their party round the camp
with Buffalo hoofs fixed to their feet, to make artificial
buffalo tracks and thus decoy the hunters from their camp. In
the morning the Delawares, discovering the tracks and supposing
them to have been made by buffaloes, followed them some time;
when suddenly the Catawbas rose from their covert, fired at and
killed several of the hunters; the others fled, collected a
party and went in pursuit of the Catawbas. These had brought
with them, rattle snake poison corked up in a piece of cane
stalk; into which they dipped small reed splinters, which they
set up along their path. The Delawares in pursuit were much
injured by those poisoned splinters, and commenced retreating
to their camp. The Catawbas discovering this, turned upon their
pursuers, and killed and scalped many of them.

[4] John Peter Salling, sometimes spoken of as Peter Adam
Salling, was, if not of German birth, of German descent. With
his brother Henry, he early settled in the forks of James River
and North Branch, in the southern part of what is now
Rockbridge county, Va. The details of his early explorations in
the West are involved in doubt, but that he had such adventures
there seems no good reason to doubt. It will be noticed that
Withers omits the date; some writers have placed it at about
1724, but the probable time was 1738-40