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past services it appears that these strangers sacked the churches and 
convents and killed many Christian Indians, but were driven oft' by 
a force sent from St. Augustine. 1 
When South Carolina was settled, in the year 1670, the English 
found the post and missions about Port Royal abandoned, but those 
in Guale still flourishing. In a letter to Lord Ashley, dated the 
same year, William Owen says: 
There are only foure [Spanish missionaries] betweene ns and St. Augustines. Our 
next neighbour is he of Wallie wch ye Spaniard calls St Katarina who hath about 300? 
Indians att his devoir. With him joyne ye rest of ye Brotherhood and cann muster 
upp from 700 hundred Indians besides those of ye main they vpon any vrgent occa- 
sions shall call to their assistance, they by these Indians make warr with any other 
people yt disoblige them and yet seem not to be concerned in ye matter. 2 
In addition to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Tolomato, four 
Guale missions appear in the mission list of 1680, viz, San Buenaven- 
tura de Ovadalquini, Santo Domingo de Assaho, San Joseph de 
Capala, and Santa Cathalina de Guale. They were placed in one 
province with two Timucua missions, the whole being called the 
Provincia de Guale y Mocama. 1 Mocama means "on the sea" in 
Timucua, the Timucua towns in this province being on and near the 
Atlantic. 
Through a letter written to the court of Spain May 14, 1680, we 
learn that the "Chiehumecos, Uchizes, and Chiluques (i. e., the 
Yuchi, Creeks, and Cherokee) had made friends with the English 
and had jointly attacked two of the Guale missions. The writer 
says that (apparently in the year preceding) : 
They entered all together, first that on the island of Guadalquini, belonging to said 
province [of Guale]. There they caused several deaths, but when the natives ap- 
peared led by my lieutenant, to defend themselves, they retired and within a few 
days they entered the island qf Santa Oatalina, capital and frontier post, against 
these enemies. They were over three hundred men strong, and killed the guard of 
six men. with the exception of one man who escaped and gave the alarm, thus enab- 
ling the inhabitants of that village to gather for their defense. They consisted of 
about 40 natives and five Spaniards of this garrison, who occupied the convent of the 
friar of that doctrina, where a few days previously captain Francisco Fuentes, my 
lieutenant of that province had arrived. He planned their defense so well and with 
such great courage that he kept it up from dawn until 4 p. m. with sixteen Indians 
who had joined him with their firearms (on this occasion I considered it important 
that the Indians should carry firearms). As soon as I was advised of what had occur- 
red I sent assistance, the first three days ahead. Then I sent a body of about thirty 
men and a boat with thirteen people, including the sailors, but when they arrived 
the enemy had retreated. I am assured that among them [the enemies] there came 
several Englishmen who instructed them, all armed with long shotguns, which caused 
much horror to those natives, who abandoned the island of Santa Oatalina. I am 
told that they might return to live there if the garrison be doubled. As I have heard 
that they had eight men there from this garrison, I have resolved to send as many as 
> Lowery, MSS. ' S. Car. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, p. 198. 
