At some point after October 8th, Montiano received a letter from Guemes.* Guemes said the squadron of nine warships (Mont. already knew about them?) commanded by Don Joseph Pizarro were sitting in the harbor at Havana.* An express boat on its way to Vera Cruz had dropped off two letters from Spain to Guemes, but neither of them reported anything new about whether the country would go to war.* Guemes told Montiano that he had seen other, private letters that sounded like the English had corrected their intentions.* Guemes explained reasons why he and others thought the English would resolve their differences in the colonies by peaceful means.* Montiano could not fathom this was true.* All of his men traveling the road to Apalache were targets of Indians for the fifty dollar bounty offered by the English.* Reports kept coming of troops and guns setting up camp all around him.* When Captain Davis was in town, Montiano had a long, private conversation with him.* He managed to get Davis comfortable enough to give what Montiano believed was a true and accurate account of the situation in the Georgia colonies.* The only thing new among Davis’s details was confirmation that Oglethorpe was now in Georgia.* Montiano could see no reason except for Oglethorpe coming to Georgia except to begin the fight he had been stocking up for.* In fact, Montiano was astonished that Oglethorpe had not made a move yet, considering how captious and restless the man was.* Montiano didn’t trust the calm at all.* It was so opposite of the storm of military building that had been going on, that Montiano interpreted the quietness as a cunning military tactic.* He resolved to keep himself and his people on full watch of the St. Johns River and the Pupo and Picolata forts.* He was also determined to keep the work on St. Augustine’s fortifications moving forward as fast as possible, and keeping up the quest for information on the English colonies.* He refused to sit back and let the English keep taking over Spanish land with no rights to it.* Montiano was in a dual battle. One was to keep up with his advancing foe. The other was to keep his government convinced he needed help. He kept writing every little detail to Guemes, but often there was no ship available to deliver his letters.* He decided to send a (barge/launch) with his mail if there was no ship to take it.* Sure enough, Montiano got a letter from Don Pedro Lamberto.* Lamberto said that (Oglethorpe had shot a soldier/a soldier shot at Oglethorpe).* Lamberto found out about it from Davis, but Davis had (never mentioned it/hidden the fact from) Montiano.*