n the Sandusky River, was waiting with
the stake.

So Simon Kenton journeyed unwillingly onward, to be saved, at the last
moment, by the British. But Logan had done his best. After this he
drank harder, until his mind was injured. He had flashes of good, and
he had longer flashes of bad. He seemed bent upon doing as much harm
to himself as he could.

Then, in 1780, one day at Detroit he thought that while drunk he had
killed his Shawnee wife. He imagined that he was being arrested; and
in the fight that he made he was shot dead by his own nephew, on the
road between Detroit and Sandusky.

Many mourned Cornstalk. "Who was there to mourn Logan"--the "friend of
the white man?"

"Not one!"

But the name "Logan" was worn, like a badge of honor, by others in the
Mingo people.

CHAPTER X

LITTLE TURTLE OF THE MIAMIS (1790-1791)

HE WINS GREAT VICTORIES

During the Revolution, by which the United States became an independent
nation, the great majority of the Indian tribes within reach took
active part on the side of the British.

The Iroquois fought out of friendship, they said; the tribes farther
west fought in the hope of keeping the settlers out of the Kentucky,
Ohio and Indiana country.

For some years after the war, which closed in 1782, there was a dispute
between the United States and England over the carrying out of certain
terms in the treaty of peace. Until the matter was settled, the
British kept Detroit and other American frontier posts.

This encouraged the Indians. They had been much astonished and alarmed
to find that the Americans had "laid the king on his back." Now that
the British had lost the fight, what would happen to _them_?

But the British agents and traders still in the Indian country urged
them on to make good their boast that "no white cabin should smoke
beyond the Ohio." It was reported that the king was only resting, and
that the Americans yet had no right to any land west of the Ohio River.

So the Miamis, the Potawatomis, the Ottawas, the Shawnees, the war
Delawares, the Chippewas, the Kickapoos, the Wyandots, the Senecas,
refused to meet the Americans in council or to bury the hatchet. They
formed a league of defense.

The Miamis were the central nation. "People who live on the peninsula"
was their Chippewa name--for they were Algonquins from the Chippewa and
Ottawa country north of the Great Lakes. "Twanh-twanh," the cry of the
crane, was their own name.