Both had empty guns, and the contest became one as to who could beat the other in loading, the Indian exclaiming: "Who load first, shoot first!" The chief got his powder down first, but, in hurriedly drawing out his ramrod, it slipped through his fingers and fell in the river.

Seeing that it was all over, he instantly faced his foe, pulled open the bosom of his shirt, and the next moment received the ball fair in his breast.

Adam, alarmed for his brother, who by this time could barely keep himself afloat, rushed into the river to save him, not heeding Andrew's repeated cries to take the big Indian's scalp.

Meanwhile the dying chief, resolute to save the long locks his enemies coveted--always a point of honor among the red men,--painfully rolled himself into the stream.

Before he died he reached the deep water, and the swift current bore his body away.
Other Feats of Personal Prowess About this time a hunter named McConnell was captured near Lexington by five Indians.