131 an eagle feather placed it on her head, declaring that he now adopted Mr. Smick into his nation as a brother, and Mrs. Smick as a sister. He then hastily bid 'them an adieu, and was soon off with his warriors on their journey. He was killed the same summer, as elsewhere related, but before going back to the fatal Point Pleasant, he had again visited sister Smick and her husband at Gnadenhutten.” “ Legend of The Big Spring—In September, 1782, some four hundred warriors from the north-west, on the way to the Ohio, encamped at Schoenbrunn, as Crawford’s four hundred troopers had [done when going to the northwest in the preceding June. They came back from an unsuccessful raid on Wheeling, as well as along the border, and rested again at Schoenbrunn, as Williamson’s routed Crawford army had rested on their way home, the one army having lost Crawford, and the other the celebrated “ Big Foot” chief, and the legend is that as the savages stopped to drink at the>Zeisberger Spring, the tongues of their victims tied to their necks as tro phies of war, uttered unearthly moans, and
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