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revenge; every wolfish instinct in him came to the 

 surface. He wreaked a terrible vengeance for his 

 wrongs; but in true Indian fashion it fell, not on 

 those who had caused them, but on others who were 

 entirely innocent. Indeed he did not know who 

 had caused them. The massacres at Captina and 

 Yellow Creek occurred so near together that they 

 were confounded with each other; and not only 

 the Indians but many whites as well 51 credited 

 Cresap and Greathouse with being jointly respon- 

 sible for both, and as Cresap was the most prom- 

 inent, he was the one especially singled out for 

 hatred. 



Logan instantly fell on the settlement with a 

 small band of Mingo warriors. On his first foray 

 he took thirteen scalps, among them those of six 

 children. 52 A party of Virginians, under a man 

 named McClure, followed him; but he ambushed 

 and defeated them, slaying their leader. 53 He re- 

 peated these forays at least three times. Yet, in 

 spite of his fierce craving for revenge, he still 

 showed many of the traits that had made him be- 

 loved of his white friends. Having taken a pris- 

 oner, he refused to allow him to be tortured, and 

 saved his life at the risk of his own. A few days 

 afterward he suddenly appeared to this prisoner with 

 some gunpowder ink, and dictated to him a note. 

 On his next expedition this note, tied to a war-club, 

 was left in the house of a settler, whose entire fam- 

 ily was murdered. It was a short document, writ- 



51 Do,, p. 435. 52 Do., pp. 468, 546. 53 Do., p. 470. 



