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Striped Indians [Chichimecos] and blond whites raided Apalache

Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast #129

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In the fall of 1659, Governor Aranguiz y Cotes received notice from his lieutenant in the Apalache province of northwestern Florida
of the arrival of enemy warriors in the interior:

[E]ighty leagues from there [Apalache] there had arrived by a large river some striped Indians, and with them white people, and that they
brought some firearms and among them two campaign pieces, and they came doing much damage, and the quantity is up to a thousand
men and whites suspected to be some of those Englishmen who reside toward Jacan, but the design which they bring is unknown (Aranguiz y Cotes, 1659a).

During an investigation of the necessity for constructing a fort in Apalache, the governor elaborated that "today His Grace finds himself with very abundant news that through the provinces of Apalachocoli and that of the Chacatos, bordering on that of Apalache, people are coming in great quantity, and those who they could be has not been well understood, due to the little capacity of the Indians, more than that they are white and blond people, and they bring in their company many warrior Indians, their faces striped, and who use firearms and come laying waste to the land (Aranguiz y Cotes, 1659b).