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Her body was found and a Wyandot chief, known as the Panther, showed her scalp as a trophy. Burgoyne would have been a poor creature had he not shown anger at such a crime, even if committed against the enemy. This crime, however, was committed against his own friends.
Mingo Junction "Mingo Bottom" of old was an interesting locality in frontier days. On this fertile river beach was long one of the strongest of the Mingo villages. During the last week of May, 1782, Crawford's little army rendezvoused here, en route to Sandusky, a hundred and fifty miles distant, and intent on the destruction of the Wyandot towns.
I want to see them five wonders o' the world that Paul talks about." "We may go to them," said Henry, "but it seems probable to me that we'll reach a big Wyandot village first." The Indians resumed their voyage in the usual leisurely fashion the next morning, and the five on shore followed at a convenient distance. They observed that the water of the river was now shallowing fast.
Accoutred in this manner, and mounted on a small hardy horse, called here an Indian pony, imagine a tall, athletic, brown man, with black hair and eyes the hair generally plaited in front, and sometimes hanging in long wavy curls behind aquiline nose, and fearless aspect, and you have a fair idea of the Wyandot and Cayuga Indian.
He took a single fleeting look backward, and saw many brown figures speeding through the forest. He knew their tactics. The fan would develop into a half curve, and pursue with all the fleetness and tenacity with which the Indian above all the Wyandot was capable. If he varied but a single yard from the direct line of his flight some one in the half curve would gain by it.
Many times had they told the glories of Hode-no-sau-nee, the Great League, and many times had they gladly acknowledged the valor and worth of Timmendiquas and the brave little Wyandot nation.
This could be none other than the great Mohawk war chief, Thayendanegea, the Brant of the white men, terrible name on the border. Henry gazed at him eagerly from his covert, etching his features forever on his memory. His face, lean and strong, was molded much like that of Timmendiquas, and like the Wyandot he was young, under thirty.
Henry remained about four hours in the crowd, and then, an old man, whose dignity and bearing showed that he held a chief's rank, tapped him on the shoulder. "Come," he said in fair English, "I am Heno, and you are our prisoner." Henry had learned already that Heno in Wyandot meant Thunder, and he answered cheerfully. "Very well, my good Thunder, lead on, and I'll follow."
He was wild with the rage of battle, but a lucky shot from the window of the blockhouse slew him. He fell almost at the feet of the horrified woman, and it was seen the next morning that he belonged to the fearless Wyandot nation.
It was a case of the mouse and the cat, with fortune playing as the cat, and he serving as the mouse. The five guards from Wakatomica took him in tow, for Upper Sandusky, and he gave over hoping any more. Upper Sandusky, northern Ohio, was a Wyandot Huron town. It was a center for the Indians of many tribes.
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