At Father Rogel's recommendation... a lay brother named Baez and a boy catechist were sent north to establish a presence among the "better disposed" Indians of Orista and Guale (Segura, 1568). Rogel assured Francis Borgia, General of the Society of Jesus, that the Guales "were good workers, tillers of the soil. There are twenty-three friendly chieftains there and it would be easy to preach to them for almost all the Spaniards living there know the language. This language is the most widely spoken in Florida. A soldier who knows it, told me that when he was two hundred leagues inland he understood and was understood upon speaking it. These Indians have another good quality. They are inquisitive and want to know the reason for everything we tell them. They already know much about our holy religion and are very devoted to the cross. I am sure they would make excellent Christians, were it not for the bad example our countrymen give them" (Rogel, 1568). (Bushnell SS)