By October the two leaders reached an agreement. Both agreed to restrain Indians in their control and promised that no natives would enter Florida or Georgia without first obtaining a license from their respective governor. Oglethorpe consented to evacuate San Juan Island but in return extracted a promise form Moral that the Spaniards would not refortify it. Both governors agreed to submit all border disputes to Europe for settlement by diplomats there. This treaty was bitterly denounced in Spain. Moral’s superiors objected both to his open admission of English possession of Georgia and to his abandonment of San Juan Island. Moral, however, was a realist. Georgia was already lost to the English. His aim now was to prevent the loss of Florida in the same way, and he needed time to bolster his defenses. In 1736 diplomacy seemed the only convenient stratagem to gain this time. (Tepaske GSF)