To understand the next chapter in treasury history we must once again digress to the relationship between Florida and Cuba, two colonies grudgingly interdependent. The gradual pacification of the peninsula, accomplished by Florida-based soldiers and friars, brought benefits to the island. Cuban fishermen searched the Florida coastal waters; Cuban traders bartered with the southern Indians for amber and salvage; Cuban armada suppliers floated ships’ masts down the San Martin and other Gulf rivers. [Note 38: Cedula re bartering in Florida 4/21/1592; Thomas Menendez Marquez and Joachin de Florencia to Gov. Torres y Ayala 4/15/1697. For the ordinary Florida exports to Havana, see Juan de Pueyo and Juan Benedit Horruytiner 11/10/1707.]