In turn the Seneca sketched the story of the French and English domination and of the birth of the United States, which, he said, desired peace with the confederated Indians. The Shawanese repeated the story of St. Clair's disaster of the year before and asserted that the Indians claimed certain lands east of the Ohio and all lands west of that river. Those to the eastward would be given up for proper compensation. In reply to the Seneca's desire to bring about a treaty with the hostile nations, the Shawanese replied: "Inform General Washington we will treat with him, at the Rapids of Miami, next spring, or at the time when the leaves are fully out.... We will lay the bloody tomahawk aside, until we hear from the President of the United States...."[134] Cornplanter returned eastward with his delegation and the reports of the convention were hurried on to Philadelphia with the ominous hint that no boundary would ever be consented to by the northwestern Indians save only the Ohio River. The message as it spread across the Alleghenies brought dark days and anxious nights to cabins on the thin fringe of pioneer settlements from the Muskingum to the Miami. As the winter winds came down from the north, two of the spies sent out from Fort Washington came in from the forests--May from Niagara and Reynolds from Montreal. Leaving Fort Hamilton, May crossed St. Clair's battlefield; beyond, in Harmar's trail, he found Trueman and two other men killed and scalped; captured, he was saved from death by Simon Girty and sold to Matthew Elliott, in whose employ he labored on the lakes. In numerous instances he identified scalps of friends, in particular that of Colonel Hardin. In September Girty had gone on a raiding expedition to "Fallentimber" between Forts St. Clair and Hamilton to capture horses, saying that he would "do every mischief in his power" and "raise hell to prevent a peace."[135] Reuben Reynolds, after varied experiences, came down from Montreal through the Vermont forests to Philadelphia, where his deposition was taken by Washington's secretary, Lear, October 19. The Lake Superior Indians had joined the confederacy and "they expected to have three thousand or three thousand five hundred Indians in the field against the Americans."[136] May, with equally exaggerated reports, affirmed that there were "3,600 warriors" at the Auglaize River.[137] Not long after this Wayne entertained at his camp at Legionville several of the chiefs of the Allegheny, Cornplanter, New Arrow, Big Tree, and Guasutha. Pointing to the Ohio from where he sat, one of them--according to Posey's journal--said: "My Heart & mind is fixed on that River & may that water Continue to run & remain the boundary of everlasting Peice, between the white & Red People on its opposite shores."