From Mose in Secondary Literature by Amy July 22nd 1738 Sir At this hour, four in the afternoon, I have received a courier from Pupo, • by which Don Pedro Lamberto informs me of his having arrived at that fort, with the loss of two Calvary soldiers whom the Yuchees killed on the roads • stating that although he charged on them he could not gain any advantage as they retired into an impenetrable wood which checked the spirit of our Indians, • they fell on the return convoy from Apalache, and are the same who came from here; • and if we had stopped behind to organize and attack the enemy, it would not have been possible to execute it without betraying the object of this difficult enterprise, • and he therefore hinted that the wounded should come on and resolved to continue his march without chastising them: • and at the same time informed me that the English of the neighboring Colonies had called on the Uchees, and that they had prepared to stop with them. • By the same courier I received the letters which Don Miguel de Ribas and Don Antonio de Arredondo wrote to me, • in which they informed me of their arrival and of that of the barge & bilander of Don Pedro Barranco without bringing any news, with which he sailed from this city. The movement of these Uchee Indians, • and the news from Don Pedro Lamberto of the understanding which the English had with these Uchees appears to me worthy of reflection, • and I have not only sent you this news by Pedro de Alcantara, but have also sent a duplicate overland by Luis Gomez • that he may pass by the keys to deliver them to the patroon of the first vessel he encounters, • to whom he shall remit the order, that at the place where he receives this letter he shall carry this express, make sail and go to the city to place it in your hands. Manuel de Montiano- To Senior Don Juan Fransisco de Guemes y Horcasitas (74)