_Letter from Pablo Ita Salazer to his Majesty--Indians of the Province of Guale ally themselves with the English and together with over three hundred men make war against the Spaniards of the Island of St. Catherine--Surprising and killing the sentinels, only one of whom escaped to warn the Garrison--The people gather in the convent of a Friar and defend themselves from daylight until four o’clock, when aid from this Garrison reached them--The enemy retires--Natives of the Island greatly alarmed--Disquieting news of the intentions of the enemy upon this Garrison--Implores the aid of the King quickly that the English may be ejected from the land--Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, Governor and Captain-General of Florida, gives an account to his Majesty of hostilities in the Provinces--Two Fleets, French and English, going and coming from Havana--Seize Fort Matanzas and after plundering, burn it to the ground--Is being rebuilt--Great depredations committed up and down the coast by the enemy--Indians and half-breeds taken and sold into slavery--Pushing the work on the Castle--Grieved over its slow progress, owing to lack of workmen--Begs to be allowed to retire because of age and long service--To Charles II, our principal Casique, the King--From the people of the territory of Habalache--The King to the Governor and Captain-General of Florida concerning ten negroes from St. George who asked for the waters of baptism--A Sergeant-Major from St. George comes to claim them--Because they have become Christians the Spanish King decides to buy them--After receiving a receipt they are to be set at liberty, each one given a document to that effect--The King reprimands Don Diego Quirago for not immediately attending to these matters--Orders a full account to be sent as soon as it is accomplished._
In a letter of April last year I stated to you the misgivings I felt about the English who have populated the Province of Carolina and River St. George. In November of the following year I repeated this with some evidence, and such a plan or a map from the River St. George to Mobile. Afterwards I was notified that five Englishmen had put to flight one of the Towns and penetrated as far as the Province of Guale, which belongs to the jurisdiction of this Garrison, where they came to take declarations and give information concerning the coming of the English to those parts; all of which I submit to your Majesty.