McKee sent to the home authorities a full account of this council, where he had assisted at the reception and distribution of the scalps the savages had taken from the soldiers of a nation with which the British still pretended to be at peace; and a few days later he reported that the Lake Indians were at last gathering, and that when the fighting men of the various tribes joined forces, as he had reason to believe they shortly would, the British posts would be tolerably secure from any attacks by Wayne.

[Footnote: Canadian Archives, McKee's letters May 25 and May 30, 1794.] Indians Serve the British as Police.
The Indians served the British, not only as a barrier, against the Americans, but as a police for their own soldiers, to prevent their deserting.

An Englishman who visited the Lake Posts at this time recorded with a good deal of horror the fate that befell one of a party of deserters from the British garrison at Detroit.

The commander, on discovering that they had gone, ordered the Indians to bring them back dead or alive.

When overtaken one resisted, and was killed and scalped.
The Indians brought in his scalp and hung it outside the fort, where it was suffered to remain, that the ominous sight might strike terror to other discontented soldiers.