The Franciscans assigned the blame for the Apalache Rebellion of 1647 to Governor Salazar, for starting a wheat farm on the lands of the chief of Asile and for burdening the Indians with rescates (Prado, 1654). But the unabashed Salazar asked to be reinstated in office, offering to build the Crown a second galleon. He wanted to remain in Florida, he said, because of the wheat and mule farms he had started for the service of His Majesty and the commonwealth. Conversions were progressing nicely, he assured the king; chiefs were coming from many leagues in the interior to ask for friars (Salazar y Vallecilla, [1650?]). (Bushnell SS)