Governor Zuniga's orders in November 1700 to Jacinto Roque Perez, teniente of Apalache, reveal his two concerns for the provinces: that they produce food for the presidio, and that they prepare for war. Zuniga sent Captain Juan de Ayala y Escobar to check on defenses in Apalache. The governor was suspicious of recent French-arranged treaties calling for the Apalaches to supply packhorses to the Creeks, who would undoubtedly trade them to the English for firearms. Through Ayala he clamped an embargo on all Apalache trade in European goods, in particular, weapons, clothing, silver, and horses. The Christians were not to travel into Apalachicola; gentiles who wanted to trade with them could come to the Apalache border (Zuniga y Cerda, 1700; Ayala y Escobar, 1701). (Bushnell SS)