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who, with one hundred and thirty men, was in his strong and well made fort, to come 
and make his peace with me, the which he did, and compounded for il with bis 
church's plate, and ten horses laden with provisions. After this, I marched through 
five towns, which had all strong forts, and defences against small arms. They all 
submitted and surrendered their forts to me without condition. I have now in my 
company all the whole people of three towns, and the greatest part of four more. We 
have totally destroyed all the people of four towns; so that we have left the Apalatchia 
but that one town which compounded with one part of St. Lewis; and the people of one 
town, which run away altogether: their town, church and fort, we burnt. The people 
of St. Lewis come to me every night. I expect and have advice that the town which 
compounded with me are coming after me. The waiting for these people make my 
marches slow; for I am willing to bring away with me, free, as many of the Indians as I 
can, this being the address of the commons to your honour to order it so. This will 
make my men's part of plunder (which otherwise might have been 100£ to a man) but 
small. But I hope with your honour's assistance to find a way to gratifie them for 
their loss of blood. I never see or hear of a stouter or braver thing done, than the 
storming of the fort. It hath regained the reputation we seemed to have lost under 
the conduct of Robert Macken, the Indians now having a mighty value for the whites. 
Apalatchia is now reduced to so feeble and low a condition, that it can neither support 
St. Augustine with provisions, nor distrust, endamage or frighten us: our Indians living 
between the Apalatchia and the French. In short, we have made Carolina as safe as 
the conquest of Apalatchia can make it. 
If I had not so many men wounded in our first attempt, I had assaulted St. Lewis 
fort, in which is about 28 or 30 men, and 20 of these came thither from Pensacola to 
buy provisions the first night after I took the first fort. 
On Sabbath, the 23d instant, I came out of Apalatchia settle, and am now about 30 
miles on my way home; but do not expect to reach it before the middle of March, 
notwithstanding my horses will not be able to carry me to the Cheeraque's Mountain. 
I have had a tedious duty, and uneasy journey; and though I have no reason to fear 
any harm from the enemy, through the difference between the whites-, and between 
Indians and Indians, bad way and false alarms, I do labour under hourly uneasiness. 
The number of free Apalatchia Indians that are now under my protection, and bound 
with me to Carolina, are 1300, and 100 slaves. The Indians under my command 
killed and took prisoners on the plantations, whilst we stormed the fort, as many 
Indians as we and they took and killed in the fort. 
Dated in the woods 50 miles north and east of Apalatchia. 
An account of this from the Spanish side is contained in a letter 
to the king written by Governor Don Jose de Zuiiiga, March 30, 1704, 
though there is a discrepancy in the dates, which differences in calen- 
dar do not seem fully to account for. The mention of Guale is evi- 
dently a mistake; probably Ayaville is intended. He says: 
After the late siege of St. Augustine the enemy invaded San Jose and San Francisco, 
destroying everything in their path, killing many Indians and carrying with them 
over 500 prisoners. 
They returned afterward, accompanied by the English who laid siege to this fort 
and invaded the province of Apalachee, destroying all the lands. They then assaulted 
Guale, on the 25th of January of the present year, which was vigorously defended by 
the Indians and the clergyman, Fray Angel de Miranda, who bravely defended the 
position, fighting from early in the morning until two o'clock in the afternoon, when 
their ammunition was exhausted. The enemy then advanced through the passage 
adjoining the church, which they set on fire, gaining possession of the passage. 
On the 26th I sent my lieutenant, Jiian Ruiz, with thirty Spanish soldiers mounted 
and four hundred Indians. They attacked the enemy, inflicting a loss upon them of 
