Ten years later the King ordered all situados bound for Caribbean forts brought instead to Spain for more pressing military needs. (Pedro Beltr:in de Santa Cruz, November 28, 1645.) If only Florida had suffered a loss, Spanish colonies that were unaffected could have come to her aid, but in these two cases there was nowhere to go for help. Credit was available in Havana, but without exports to serve as collateral, it could be secured only on the most usurious terms. (Brme Arguelles, May 12, 1591; Governor Rojas y Borja, November 6, 1628; Francisco Menendez Marquez and Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, May 17, 1646.) Florida was forced to become as self-sufficient as possible, while trying to find products for export: hides and pelts to Spain, naval supplies and provisions to Havana. (Bushnell MM)