Declaration of Santiago In St. Augustine, Florida, on the said day, month, and year, His Grace the said senor governor and captain general, for the said declarations, commanded to appear before him Santiago, cacique of the said town of Guadalquini, who, before me, the notary, and by means of the said Juan Bautista, the interpreter, was sworn in before God and a sign of the cross, in legal form, and having done so, and given him to understand the gravity and solemnity of the oath, he promised to speak the truth, and being read the said auto, according to its tenor he said that the cacique Lorenzo having left him as guard of the town of Guadalquini with ten men so that he might watch the Bar and port of the said town, one morning he saw a sloop enter it, and having anchored, six Englishmen came to land in the rowboat, and upon three landing, this witness imprisoned them, and the said boat returned aboard [to the sloop]. This witness sent to advise the said cacique Lorenzo, and having come and turned his town over to him, he made a prisoner come forth to the beach and call to the boat, offering them good quarter, as a result of which came the seven Englishmen who remained in the said sloop, which soon remained high and dry with the low tide. They took the said prisoners, which in all were ten and an English woman, to the council house, and afterward the said cacique sent word to the mainland to advise the Lieutenant Don Juan de Saturnino of what had happened. He came Saturday early in the morning, and [this witness] saw that the said cacique Lorenzo turned the said prisoners and vessel over to the said lieutenant. And after that, about what happened regarding the ship which entered having taken them away, he knows nothing because he was on the mainland until the large ship entered, when he crossed with the said cacique and the soldiers to look for the said lieutenant, whom they found on the Point of Olaia, and they came near the town, from which they dispatched two Indians in the early morning to see where the enemy was. Having returned, and sent other Indians as soon as the day dawned, [this witness] saw that the said lieutenant withdrew along with the rest of the soldiers and Indians, who were about forty persons. Afterward, he found out that Captain Francisco de Fuentes had arrived at the said town with the people whom he led, having found it burned and sacked, and what he has said and declared is the truth and what he knows, aware of the oath [f. 10, vto.] which he has made, in which he affirms and ratifies, and he is of the age of thirty years. He did not sign, not knowing how to. His Grace, the said senor governor, signed it. Juan Marquez Cabrera Before me, Alonso Solana Public and Governmental Notary [f. 11]