In both Spanish outposts the commandants threw open their storehouses but in the end had little to offer the Indians except food. In Pensacola the Uchizes consumed or carried off over half of the garrison’s supplies. In Apalache they received such large handouts that the commandant reduced his own supplies to just a few barrels of sugar and molasses. This, he asserted, greatly angered his soldiers, who resented gifts to the Indians at their own expense. They were particularly disturbed over being deprived of their tobacco, one of the few pleasures they could enjoy in their barren frontier outpost. (Tepaske GSF)