Two weeks later, at four o’clock in the afternoon, a courier arrived with a note from Don Pedro Lamberto.* Lamberto and his troops and Indians were traveling back to St. Augustine from Apalache.* The Indians had fallen behind and became separated from the troops.* Two scouts were a ways ahead.* During that separation, Uchee Indians had attacked Lamerto’s troops and killed to two scouts.* Others were injured.* The troops tried to chase down the Uchees, but they disappeared into some brush too thick for the troops to get through.* Lamberto thought of waiting for his own Indian allies to catch up and help chase down the attackers.* However, he decided that would cause enough commotion to blow the secrecy of the construction project in Apalache.* Plus, Lamberto himself was sick.* They gathered the wounded and continued on their journey until they reached Fort Pupo, 20 miles west of St. Augustine.* Lamberto also said that the English of the neighboring colonies had invited the Uchee Indians to come in, and the Uchees were preparing to cross over to those colonies.* The courier had continued on to St. Augustine to deliver Lamberto’s letter.* He also had letters from Ribas and Arredondo.* They both described a smooth arrival in Apalache.* Montiano was also relieved to read that Don Pedro Barranco had arrived there with his (barge/launch) and (bilander/sloop).* Did Barranco come from Havana or St. Augustine? The attack on Lamberto’s troops, on the other hand, had implications that unnerved Montiano even more than the tragedy of it.* He excused the courier and immediately sat down to write to Guemes. He told him about the attack and its possible link to the English.* If they were allying with Uchees to attack Spaniards on inland roads, there was more strategy going on than Oglethorpe’s coastal campaign.* Once again, Pedro de Alcantara had to catch the wind with his schooner.* Once again, Montiano had to cut his letter short, despite the urgency of the message.* By the time he signed the letter, Montiano started to fear it wouldn’t even reach Guemes.* He copied the letter verbatim.* He sent one copy to Havana on board Pedro de Alcantara’s schooner.* He called for Luis Gomez, and gave him the duplicate letter to carry overland to the Florida Keys.* He told Gomez to give the letter to the master of the first ship he saw in the Keys, and tell the captain to deliver it immediately to the hands of Guemes in Havana.*