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sister of the chief, Ins mother, a' son, and the son's wife, were 
captured, and 40 Indians were burned in their houses. Menendez 
liberated most of his male captives and exchanged the women for 
Borne Frenchmen, who were largely blamed for the uprising, and 
most of whom were subsequently executed. 
In 1580 a new uprising occurred, again attributed to the French. 
In fact, shortly before, a French vessel was captured near the 
mouth of the St. .Johns and two others belonging to the same fleet were 
known to have entered the bay of Gualequini and to have opened com- 
munication with t he natives. Indian witnesses also testified that they 
bad hecn promised assistance from a new French armada shortly to 
appear. Fort San Marcos was evidently abandoned, or captured by 
the Indians, at this time and was not reestablished until late in 1582 
or early in 1583. A letter dated July 19, 1582, says that the Indians 
of the Province of Santa Elena had rebelled and "there was no rem- 
edy for it." In 1583, however, Governor Menendez writes that all 
of the Indians — both inland and on the coast — had come to see him 
and to yield obedience and that the chief of Santa Elena "has done 
a great deal, as he was the first to embrace the faith." Fort San 
Marcos may have received still another name, for a document of the 
period refers to it as "Fort Catuco." In 1586 Gutierrez de Miranda, 
who was prominent in a war against the Potano Indians of Florida, 
was in command of the Santa Elena fort. Late in 1587, however, or 
very early in 1588, it was finally abandoned and the garrison with- 
drawn. 1 
In a letter written to the king, February 23, 1598, Goncalo Mendez 
de Canco, Governor of Florida, states that the chief of Kiawa had 
accompanied the chief of Escamacu to war against the Indians of 
Guale and they had taken seven scalps. 2 In another, written the 
day following, he mentions, among the chiefs who had come to St. 
Augustine ''to give their submission" to him, "the chief of Aluste'' 
and "the chief of Aobi." 3 1 have not found a later mention of 
Aobi, but the name Aluste occurs several times in Spanish docu- 
ments, spelled Alieste, Alueste, and Aluete. That it was to the 
north is shown by a statement to the effect that in the massacre of 
monks, which had taken place the preceding year, all of those between 
Aluste and Asao had been killed. 4 More specific information is 
contained in the relation of a visit which Governor Pedro de Ibarra 
made to the Indians along the Georgia coast in November and Decem- 
ber, 1604. The northernmost point reached by him was Guale (St. 
Catherines Island), where, besides calling together the Guale chiefs, 
1 The information contained in this paragraph, except as otherwise noted, is principally from the Lowery, 
Brooks, and Wright manuscripts in the Library of Congress. 
5 Lowery and Brooks, MSS., Lib. Cong. 
Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 135. 
< Ibid., p. 186. 
