made
drunk, and all but the little girl were butchered.

Across the river Logan heard the shooting. He sent two men in a canoe
to find out what was the matter. They were killed. A larger canoe was
sent. It was ambushed and the survivors fled back to the camp.

Now Logan learned that his sister and brother had been murdered. They
were the last of his blood relatives. That was his reward for having
remained the friend of the white man. That was his reward for having
opened his cabin to the white wayfarer. He went bad, himself. He saw
only red, and he vowed vengeance. A bitter wrath turned his heart
sour. He felt that he must grasp the hatchet, buried so long ago by
his father Shikellemus.

The war spirit blazed high among whites and reds on the frontier. The
whites accused the Indians of many thoughts and deeds--some false, some
true. The Indians accused the whites of many deeds--mainly true.
Block-houses were hastily erected, for the protection of settlers.
Governor Dunmore of Virginia called out troops in earnest. "Dunmore's
War" as well as "Cresap's War" was this named.

The Shawnees, the Delawares, the Mingo Cayugas, the Wyandot Hurons,
held councils in their Scioto River country of central Ohio. Belts
were sent to the Miamis on the west and the Senecas on the east. There
were debates upon striking the Long Knives, as the Virginians were
called.

These Long Knife Americans had crossed the rivers and the mountains,
were possessing themselves of Ohio, and even of Kentucky; much blood
had been shed, and the wiser heads among the tribes did not know
exactly what to do about it.

The great Cornstalk, loved chief of the Shawnees, and now fifty years
in age, lifted his voice for peace. He could see no good in a war
against the Americans. Logan, gnawed by his own wrongs, remained apart
and said little. But the Americans struck first.

Hoping to keep the Indians at home, in June four hundred border men
were ordered by Governor Dunmore of Virginia to attack the villages in
Ohio. They marched west across country until in southern Ohio they
destroyed two Shawnee towns.

The light-skinned Shawnees were known as the fiercest, most stubborn
fighters among all the Algonquins between the Alleghanies and the
Mississippi River. Now their hot natures burst. Chief Cornstalk
yielded.

"It is well," he said. "If you go to war, then I will lead you. If we
fight at all, we must fight together."

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