138 gain her over by strategy. At the mission was a creole squaw of great beauty, who gave the missionaries much trouble by her lasciviousness. She possessed such fascinating charms that she was the envious terror of the other women, and turned the heads of such men as visited the mission, and it is in tradition that Zeisberger himself, then unmarried, was nearly ensnared by her conduct and her wanton approaches, but succeeded like Joseph of bld in withstanding the temptress. The Mingo tvas told of her, and escorted to her cabin. His white wife was informed of the fact, by the Indian women, they believing that she would abandon him, and become a convert. In jealous rage she avowed the death of both if found together, and repairing with her tomahawk to the woman's cabin, found that they had both left for the woods. She followed their tracks to a high bluff on the edge of the river, a short distance above the Federal Spring, and over which bluff a man named Compton fell in the night time, about twenty years ago, and was killed, the precipice being nearly one hundred feet high, but higher at the time spoken of, in 1779, from the fact that it then descended perpendicular
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