But, learning that his tribe had determined to assist the Shawanoes and had already taken some white scalps, he repaired to the place where the Mingos were holding their war council to exert his powers for peace.

There, in presence of the warriors, after swaying them from their purpose by those oratorical gifts which gave him his influence and his renown, he took the war hatchet that had already killed, and buried it in proof that vengeance was appeased.

Upon this scene there entered a Mingo from Yellow Creek with the news of the murders committed there by the three traders.

The Indian whose throat had been slit as King had served deer was Logan's brother.

Another man slain was his kinsman.