(Worth SGC) The visitation order above [Rebolledo's order of 1658] is perhaps most significant with respect to this volume for what it does not mention. Specifically, in 1658, the mission provinces of Guale and Mocama were characterized by concerns that were largely internal to Spanish Florida -the maintenance of orderly chiefly inheritance, the effect of population decline on the Indian militia and on the repartimiento labor draft, the status of the religious conversion in the mission towns, and the preservation of justice and effective government within the provinces. Though experiencing severe and often traumatic stresses as a result of regional depopulation (as were many other provinces within Spanish Florida), Guale and Mocama existed in a state of relative tranquility with respect to the outside world, particularly when compared with the next three decades. Only with the arrival of raiders from the north three years later would attention shift toward external concerns, as the indigenous societies of the Georgia coast were thrust into the fringes of a global conflict.