[Footnote 6:  The queen’s full name in French was Marie Antoinette; the name Marietta is made up from the first and the last parts of her name.]

172.  Fights with the Indians; how the settlers held their town; Indian Rock; the “Miami[7] Slaughter House.”—­But the people of Marietta had hardly begun to feel at home in their little settlement before a terrible Indian war broke out.  The village of Marietta had a high palisade[8] built round it, and if a man ventured outside that palisade he went at the risk of his life; for the Indians were always hiding in the woods, ready to kill any white man they saw.  When the settlers worked in the cornfield, they had to carry their guns as well as their hoes, and one man always stood on top of a high stump in the middle of the field, to keep a bright lookout.

[Illustration:  INDIAN ROCK.]

There is a lofty rock on the Ohio River below Marietta, which is still called Indian Rock.  It got its name because the Indians used to climb up to the top and watch for emigrants coming down the river in boats.  When they saw a boat, they would fire a shower of bullets at it, and perhaps leave it full of dead and wounded men to drift down the river.  In the western part of Ohio, on the Miami River, the Indians killed so many people that the settlers called that part of the country by the terrible name of the “Miami Slaughter House.”

[Footnote 7:  Miami (Mi-am’i).]

[Footnote 8:  See picture of a palisade in paragraph 70.]

173.  What General Wayne did.—­But President Washington sent a man to Ohio who made the Indians beg for peace.  This man was General Wayne; he had fought in the Revolution, and fought so furiously that he was called “Mad Anthony Wayne.”  The Indians said that he never slept, and named him “Black Snake,” because that is the quickest and boldest snake there is in the woods, and in a fight with any other creature of his kind he is pretty sure to win the day.  General Wayne won, and the Indians agreed to move off and give up a very large part of Ohio to the white settlers.  After that there was not much trouble, and emigrants poured in by thousands.

174.  Summary.—­In 1788 General Rufus Putnam, with a company of emigrants, settled Marietta, Ohio.  The town was named in honor of Queen Mary of France, who had helped us during the Revolution.  It was the first town built in what is now the state of Ohio.  After General Wayne conquered the Indians that part of the country rapidly increased in population.

What did General Rufus Putnam do for Washington?  Where did General Putnam go in 1788?  What is said of Ohio at that time?  Where did the Mayflower stop?  What is said of Queen Mary of France?  What did the settlers name their town?  What did Washington say about the settlers?  What did these people do?  What is said about the Indians?  What about Indian Rock?  What was the country on the Miami River called?  What is said about General Wayne?  What did the Indians call him?  Why did they give him that name?  What did the Indians agree to do?  What happened after that?