The new missions were harassed by the Tocobaga and Pocoy Indians from the coast and the Keys who raided upriver in their great scows of cypress. Governor Juan Fernandez de Olivera (1609-1612) made war on these Indians in 1610 or 1611, and afterward he kept a launch on the San Martin to insure the safety of Potano, open the way for missions in Utina and Ustaqua, and provide a back door exit to Havana. (Governor Fernandez de Olivera, October 13, 1612; Thomas Menendez Marquez and Joachin de Florencia to Governor Torres y Ayala, April 15, 1697.) This was the first time soldiers were stationed in the Florida interior. The frontier of conquest--or of "pacification" as Philip II preferred to call it--shifted to Ais and Jeaga on the east coast. (Governor Salinas, January 30, 1623.) But Potano's troubles were not yet over. In 1614 an epidemic struck... (Bushnell MM)