With no spoils except a presidio launch loaded with maize, Grammont abandoned his designs on St. Augustine and sailed north to the sea islands, where other ships were supposed to join him in taking on provisions. Not content to raid the granaries of the doctrinas of San Juan del Puerto and San Felipe, his men expressed themselves theologically by befouling the Indians' churches and hacking off the sacred images' heads, feet, and hands. By the time news of the enemies' whereabouts had reached the presidio and Captain Enrique Primo de Rivera had gotten to San Juan with 30 men, they were gone (Barbosa, 1683; Hita Salazar, 1683a; Reyes, 1683). Ex-governor Hita Salazar, in retirement in St. Augustine, thought that his successor could have pursued the pirates with more energy. "News has just come by courier from Guale that the enemy has been careening his boats on the island and bar of San Pedro and did not leave until the first day of the Paschal [season] of the Resurrection. They buried some bodies and released some prisoners, who say they have wounded men from the skirmish with them. . . . This sacking by the enemy will leave the Province of Guale incapable of recovery, which will do great harm to this presidio, both for the loss of sentinel and rearguard, and for the loss of the provisions which came from there. . . . Guale is totally ruined, which always remedied this city. "If Captain Enrique de Rivera had been given reinforcements and a free hand he might have been able to defend it and make the enemy leave, so that having invaded one pueblo they could not have destroyed a whole province and supplied themselves from it, nor the Indians have left their pueblos and gone to the woods, from which not half of them will return (Hita Salazar, 1683a). (Bushnell SS)