With the Dutch West India Company waging an all-out naval war on Spanish Hapsburg holdings, however, evangelization, like the Indian fund, had to take a back seat to imperial defense. In 1638, the king ordered the Caribbean situados sequestered to meet a more urgent need in Europe. Governor Damian de Vega Castro y Pardo disembarked at his post that year to find the Franciscans enduring hardships and shortages and only two missionaries at work in Apalache. Horruytiner's mission advances had gone into reverse. (Bushnell SS)