Putting aside his questions about the colony's future, the governor had thrown himself into the task of reconstruction, using the 10,000 ducats that had arrived in 1598 for a stone fort. As part of the rebuilding program, he had soldiers from St. Augustine go to the "city of San Pedro" to build a new church for the faithful Timucuans. In a long message to his successor, Governor Pedro de Ybarra, he reported the finished church to be "as large and capacious as the one in St. Augustine without its costing the Indians more than three hundred ducats, although it is worth two thousand" (Mendez Canzo, 1603). (Bushnell SS)