Captain Fuentes had more to think about than what Uzeda might do next. That Monday, Captain Francisco Pacheco landed at Sapelo to escort the repartimiento laborers to St. Augustine and to tell him to be on the lookout for four slaves who had escaped from the presidio. Fuentes took advantage of the opportunity to send a letter to the governor: "From here he is taking 4 Christian indios and 3 Yamases, all we can spare. I have told him how many indios he can take out of the lugares, maybe 22 or 23, because there are no indios left in this province. . . . The time of cavas is near and there is a lot to do. "In any case, I will get started tomorrow on the fortification, a matter of great importance for the security of these provinces. Father Uzeda opposes it, [but] there is no reason for His Majesty to pay the costs when the convent has the means to and it is their [defense] works. The Indians raise no difficulty, attending and obeying His Majesty's orders in all things. The casa for the watchtower at the bar I will try to build out of whatever is available; I will find the maize" (Fuentes, 1681a). From Fuentes's letter it is clear that Governor Marquez Cabrera had instructed him to seize the maize in the convent granaries, if necessary, to ration the indios de fabrica building defense works in the provinces. The teniente was having the Indians build a shelter for the sentries at the watchtower. The blockhouse, he said, would have to be put off until summer. There had been another attack, during which his inexperienced soldiers had lost Sapala's best canoa loaded with "all of Saturnino's rescates," and this loss had left the garrison with not so much as a petatillo, or leather box, of salt. When the tunaque of Tupique returned to San Joseph, Fuentes meant to lead a band of lndians and four soldiers north to a place called "Haumalles Cazina," where they would try to pick up the enemy's trail (Fuentes, 1681a). (Bushnell SS)