[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] This movement had been anticipated, and sharp shooters stationed in ambuscade, shot numbers of them in their canoes, and compelled the others to return. Logan's mother, brother and sister were among the slain. 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 from a visit to the fort at the north of the Kanhawa, was 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 rapacity of the whites.1 These acts thoroughly aroused the tribes, and the Lenapes and Skawanoes, under Cornstalk, and the them intoxicated, fell upon them and them were killed, who dropped into the knocked them in the head, and scalped river, and two others they observed fall them 5 that soon after two other Indians dead in the canoe, and the fifth, upon