so great, Governor Simcoe says he will during the Treaty keep scouting parties about our advanced posts and that if any Troops should be sent forward especially to Fort Jefferson the Indians will certainly strike them. We recollect that your instructions to General Wayne contained many cautions to prevent any steps which might move the jealousy or resentment of the Indians, but not remembering the precise terms we have thought it expedient to drop this hint. Extract of a letter from Colonel Mc Kee to Major of Brigade Littlehales, dated Detroit April 11^th 1793. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 23^d March— The Speech of the United States to the western Indians was forwarded yesterday to the Glaize by some Chiefs of the Shawanese who came here soon after its arrival to hasten the meeting; and I beg to acquaint you for the information of his Excellency at that at present it appears generally un=derstood by all the Chiefs whom I have seen that the proposed interviews with the Commissioners will certainly take place at Sandusky— But the time fixed by the United States (viz 1^st of June) appears too early for the Indians to be able to collect themselves as in all probability the major part of them will not return from their wintering Grounds before the latter end of May exclusively of the Southern Chiefs expected with the messengers who were sent last fall and also those who are to attend from Michilimac=inac and the Mississippi in order to accomplish a full and permanent settlement of all the existing differences between the Confederated Indians and the United States." "And I should apprehend from their accustomary slowness in all their deliberations that it may be the latter end of June before they are able to adjust all their business at their private Council at the Miami Rapids, preparatory to their meeting the Commissioners. His Excellency will therefore only be enabled to state to the Commissioners should they arrive at the early period proposed, the caus=es of the delay, and should he think proper to recommend to them to stay at Niagara until the Chiefs are nearly ready, I shall not neglect to give him early information thereof, that they may have sufficient time to be at the appointed place as soon as the Indians who are to meet them, their being at Sandusky so long before the meeting may be ex=tremely inconvenient to them and cannot answer any good purpose." [No 55. From Major General Knox. Sec^y of War] War department June 28^th 1793 Sir I wrote you on the 7^th instant, which was for=warded down the Ohio by Captain Melcher who left Fort Pitt on the 15^th instant. Since which yours of the 9^th May enclosing a letter from Brigadier General Wilkinson of the 8^th of that month has been received and submitted to the President of the United States. It is satisfactory to hear of your arrival in such good order. You complain that there is no suitable ground near the margin of the Ohio be=tween the two Miamis, whereon to encamp your Troops