Treachery of the British and Indians at the signing of the treaty under the great elm at Boonesborough in 1778. After the treaty was signed, Black Fish declared that it must be confirmed according to the Indian custom — a hand-shake all round, two braves to each white brother. This was the signal for treachery. The young Indians, in apparently high good-humor, seized the hands of Daniel Boone and the other pioneers, but in the very act they betrayed their purpose by too tight a grasp, and by a sudden movement toward the underbrush. With the guickness of desperation the hunters freed themselves almost as soon as touched, and in the same thrilling moment, as they sprang aside and waved their hats, came the deadly crack of the ready rifles from the blockhouse and the unarmed savages vanished in the surrounding thickets.