[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] while thus detained he ^was joined by his son Ellinipsico. Soon after the arrival of the latter, a white man named Gilmore was killed near the fort. The cry of revenge was raised, and a party of ruffians assembled, under the command of Capt. Hall, who, instead of pursuing 'the guilty, fell upon the hostages in the fort. Seeing that there was no escape for him, the old chief addressed his son : " My son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together, and has sent you to that end. It is his will, and let us submit." CORNSTALK fell, perforated with seven bullets, and died without a struggle, while his son met his fate with composure and was shot on the seat upon which he was sitting. " Thus," says Withers in his Indian Chronicles, "perished the mighty CORNSTALK, sachem of the Shawanoes, and king of the northern confederacy in 1774, a chief remarkable for many great and good qualities. He was disposed to be at all times the friend of the white man, as he was ever the advocate of honorable peace. But when his country's wrongs summoned him to battle, he became the 39 308 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. thunderbolt of war, and made his enemies feel the weight <af his arm. His noble bearing, his generous and disinterested