And she was in their power.
[1] The Maumee was designated the Miami of the Lake in the early history of Ohio.
CHAPTER II.
THE EMPTY NEST.
The scene described in the foregoing chapter transpired on the left bank of the Maumee, almost directly opposite the mouth of the Little Turkey Creek, one of its insignificant tributaries, and between that stream and the present town of Napoleon, in Henry county, Ohio.
Joe Girty was obliged to cross the Maumee to reach the Ottawa village, which was situated near the river-bank, still nearer the site of the town just mentioned.
The evening of the Girl Avenger’s capture was an auspicious one in the eye of the red-men of Northern Ohio. Mad Anthony Wayne, with the butchery of St. Clair’s gallant troops fresh in his mind, had reached Greenville, and was preparing to punish the red nomads of the forests, for their bloody deeds.
The secret agents of Great Britain moved among the savages, and stirred them up to still more bitter hatred against the Americans. There were Capt. McKee, Elliot, Simon Girty, and other renegades equally as infamous, who whispered into the red-man’s ears, until he threw back, with a bundle of arrows, into Wayne’s teeth, the peace conditions his country had told him to offer.
On the night of the She-wolf’s capture, a hundred renowned warriors from each of the allied nations, had assembled at a grand council of war in the Ottawa village. There congregated Ottawas, Shawnees, Delawares, Miamis, Wyandots, Iowas and Chippewas.
To accommodate so large a throng, the council-house had been enlarged, and even then many could not force themselves beneath the birchen roof.