After sealing the letter, Montiano couldn’t get his mind off the lack of action. He looked back at that mind-blowing letter of March 24th. It was like instructions to hurry up and wait. One thing he was allowed to move forward on was surveillance of the English settlements of Port Royal and Purisburg.* He sure wanted to know the truth behind the conflicting English sentiments. Montiano again thought through his selection of personnel to send on a spy mission. Once again, he could not think of a single person who would take the mission seriously enough to get behind enemy lines and still keep the battle plans a secret.* The one person who was dedicated and competent enough, Arredondo, was not available.* The very next day, Montiano wrote again to Guemes to complain about the lack of competent personnel he was graced with.* In fact, he said it was a bigger problem than any of the other pitiful conditions of the colony.* He acknowledged that his previous attempt at information-gathering returned the positive news that Frederico and St. George were not getting fortified, and that the people there seemed completely ignorant of any talk of war.* He had a copy of the English Gazette sent to Guemes to show just how unaware those settlers had been.* He told Guemes about the frigate and sloop that had sat for two days outside the harbor, and about Edward Bullard coincidentally showing up near the same time.* He sent Guemes a copy of the letter that Bullard brought, plus a copy of Montiano’s response to that letter.* He also shared the details of the pilot’s letter to Davis, which corroborated the news of England sending troops to Oglethorpe.* However, he added his doubts that any of this news was trustworthy, since it was coming from untrustworthy people.* And once again, he lamented that he didn’t have any trustworthy people of his own to go and find out some real facts.*