When the Tomahittan tribe attacked the Shawnee in the Ohio River valley, Arthur was wounded by an arrow and captured. He was saved from ritual burning at the stake by a Shawnee who was sympathetic to him. Upon learning that Arthur had married a Tomahittan woman (Hannah Rebecca Nikitie), the Shawnee cured his wound, gave him his gun, gave him rokahamoney (hominy) to eat, and put him on a trail that led back to his family at Chota. Most historians agree this road was the Warriors' Path that crossed the Ohio at the mouth of the Scioto River, went south across the Red River branch of the Kentucky River, then up Station Camp Creek and through Ouasiota Pass into the Ouasiota Mountains. In June 1674 (1678?), the Tomahittan chief escorted Arthur back to his English settlement in Virginia. Arthur's accounts of the land and the tribes who inhabited it provided the first detailed information about Kentucky. Arthur was also among the first Englishmen (preceded by Batts and Fallam) to visit modern West Virginia, and cross the Cumberland Gap.