RUMORS OF WARS On the same day that Governor Torres learned of the English castaways [Dickenson] down the coast, word came to him of a revolt in the province of Mayaca, also called "New Province," somewhat north of the shipwreck site. Martyred at the mission of Atoyquimi were Father Luis Sanchez and two young native assistants, one of them a cacique. The governor immediately sent out two squads of soldiers, one to Mayaca and the other one down the inland waterway. The second squad was the one that met and rescued the Dickinson party. Loose tongues told the English that three friars "under a vow" to convert the "Cape Indians" had gone amongst them and "gained on" the cacique of one town to embrace the Roman faith, whereupon his people, "much incensed against the friars," had killed him and one of the friars (Dickinson, 1699). By the time the soldiers of the first squad reached the mission of San Antonio de Enacape, the natives had stripped that church of its ornaments, images, and sacred vessels and fled. Backtracking to the mission of Jororo, the soldiers found that town deserted, a box of sacred ornaments rifled, and a companion with an injured foot whom they had left there, dead. They collected what images and ornaments they could find in Jororo and took them to the mission of San Salvador de Mayaca. Mayaca, too, they found abandoned, but nothing seemed to be missing from the convento or the church. Back in St. Augustine, the soldiers delivered what they had found to the guardian of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception. Their expedition had achieved little more than the rescue of sacred treasure (Torres y Ayala,1697). (Bushnell SS)