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Matheos went a 2nd time to capture Woodward and punish his hosts

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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Woodward no doubt smiled as Matheos withdrew. Scarcely had the Spaniards turned their backs when the Englishmen emerged from their hiding places and began to operate once more in the Apalachicola towns. The news was carried to Matheos by the spies. So back he posted late in December [1685] with a larger force than before. Cabrera's wrath was now stirred, and he ordered Matheos, in case the Indians refused to deliver the Englishmen, to burn their towns. [Para.] This time Matheos went overland to Sabacola el Grande. Crossing the Chattahoochee there, he went by roundabout trails in an endeavor to make a surprise attack on the Englishmen. Near Caveta he confiscated from a blockhouse five hundred deerskins and other merchandise belonging to the invaders. But his efforts to capture Woodward and his men were in vain. Once more they and the natives had taken to the woods. [Para.] Aided by Chief Pentocolo Matheos now summoned the absconding headmen to Caveta. Eight villages reluctantly responded, but the chiefs of the four northern towns stubbornly refused to appear. The eight towns which submitted were pardoned. The others—Caveta, Casista, Tasquique, and Colone—were burned to ashes. While the embers were still smoking Matheos returned homeward. Thirty disabled men he sent down the Chattahoochee in canoes. With the rest he went to San Luis by land.1