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numbers of their warriors, including 24 principal men. The remain- 
der were taken hack to Tamufa, from which the expedition had 
started. 1 
In a report on his missionary work dated September 15, 1602, 
Fray Baltazar Lopez, who was stationed at San Pedro, says that 
there were then no missionaries in the province of Guale, but more 
than 1,200 Christian Indians. 2 
In 1604, as we have seen, in November, Gov. Pedro de Ibarra 
visited San Simon, Sapelo, and Guale. One of his objects was to 
listen to complaints and compose differences, but he represented 
as almost equally important his desire to see the province Chris- 
tianized. By that time a church had been built at Asao, on or near 
San Simon, and another in Guale, while a third was to be constructed 
at Espogache near Sapelo. Ibarra was accompanied on this expe- 
dition by Fray Pedro Ruiz, then in charge of the doctrina at San 
Pedro, who said mass in each place. 3 When the Bishop of Cuba 
visited Florida in 1606 Ruiz was in immediate charge of the doctrina 
of Guale, and Fray Diego Delgado was located at the doctrina of 
Talaxe, close to Asao, from which he occasionally visited Espogache. 
The province of Guale was soon thoroughly missionized and w^ork 
there continued until the practical destruction of the province in the 
latter part of the century. In a letter of 1608 we find a note to the 
effect that five Guale chiefs had rebelled, but nothing more is said 
about the disturbance, which must have been of small consequence. 
Another letter, dated April 16, 1645, states that the Indians of Guale 
were then in insurrection, but could be readily reduced. 2 The list 
of Florida missions, made in 1655, mentions four or five belonging to 
the province of Guale, San Buenaventura de Boadalquivi [Guadal- 
quini] on Jekyl Island, Santo Domingo de Talaje on or near the 
present St. Simons, San Josef de Zapala on or near Sapelo, Santa 
Catarina de Guale on St. Catherines Island, and perhaps Santiago de 
Ocone, which is said to have been on an island 30 leagues from St. 
Augustine, and therefore perhaps near Jekyl Island. 4 It is evident 
that the attacks of the northern Indians, which were soon to put 
an end to the missions entirely, had begun at this date, because we 
find Santiago, mico of Tolomato, and his people located 3 leagues 
from St. Augustine, between two creeks, evidently those called San 
Diego Tolomato, or North River, and Guana. This was the mis- 
sion station of Nuestra Scnora de Guadalupe de Tolomato, which 
appeals again in the list of 1680. In 1661, as we learn by letters 
from Gov. i>. Alonso de Aranguiz y Cotes to the king, Guale was 
invaded by Indians, ''said to be Chichumecos, " but probably, as 
we shall see, Yuchi. From the letter of a soldier setting forth his 
i l.owerv and Brooks, MSS., Lib. Cong. Serrano y Sanz, Doo. IIist.,pp. 164-193. 
* Lowery, MSS. « See p. 322; and Serrano y Sanz, Ooo. I list., p. 132. 
