Pious disclaimers aside, Florida’s colonists and governors did not agree with His Majesty’s restrictions on Indian trade. The natives had many things that Spaniards wanted: sassafras, amber, deer and buffalo skins, nut oil, bear grease, tobacco, canoes, storage containers, and, most of all, food. And the Indians soon wanted what the Spanish had: weapons, construction and cultivation tools, nails, cloth, blankets, bells, glass beads, church ornaments, and rum. The problem was not to create a market but to supply it. ...The 1,500-ducat fund that the king intended for gifts to allied chiefs, the governors sometimes diverted to buy trade goods. Soldiers, having little else, exchanged their firearms; the Cherokees living on the Upper Tennessee River in 1673 owned 60 Spanish flintlocks. (Bushnell KC)