Indian Problems near Saint Augustine Although after Queen Anne’s War the governor focused his attention principally on the Lower Creeks, he also attended to the needs of the Indians living in villages near Saint Augustine. Here the Franciscans helped minister to the spiritual needs of the natives and provided them with food and supplies from the governor’s warehouses. Inhabited mainly by Yamasees, Timucuans, and displaced Guales and located near Saint Augustine, the most important of these towns were Costa, Nombre de Dios (Chiquito), Nombre de Dios (Marcaris), Casipuyas, Palica, Timucua, Pocotalaca, Iororo, Tama, and Tolomato. [Note 41: Journal of Captain Tobias Fitch, 5/21/1726] Indians in these villages played little part in the power struggle going on in the Southeast. The Spaniards supported them and tended to their needs. Occasionally these Indians joined the Floridians in their sallies into Carolina or acted as scouts for Spanish patrols, but otherwise they remained outside the mainstream of Spanish Indian affairs. During the war there were little more than 400 natives in the Saint Augustine area, although after the war the influx of Yamasees increased this number to 1,000. [Note 42: Testimonio 12/11/1726] (Tepaske GSF)