Failure to engage Palmer’s Carolinians cost the governor much prestige among the Indians living near the Florida capital. They looked upon Benavides as a coward and believed he should have acted more decisively against the English invasion force. Even in the very shadow of Fort San Marcos, the symbol of Spanish might in the Southeast, the governor had proved reluctant to challenge enemy marauders. Thirty Yamasees had died in Palmer’s raid, and others were captured and sold into slavery. For those who remained, the food, supplies, and spiritual ministrations of the Franciscans were poor substitutes for decisive military action that might have saved their families. [Note 44: Del cacique de Nombre de Dios Chiquito (Francisco Iospogue) al rey, 10/18/1728. This chief points out that English infidel Indians had seized his wife and four children and sold them into slavery. AN335 Although many Yamasees and Timucuans remained under Spanish tutelage, others left their villages to see alliances with the English or to pursue an independent course like that of the Lower Creeks. (Tepaske GSF)