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Some Guale notified the Spanish of French ships scouting Guale harbors for the lost prince
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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The fact was that the Guales were disunited. When five French vessels appeared at the bar of Guale and five others at the bar of Sapala in July, the anti-French faction notified the Spanish at Santa Elena and once more allowed a Spaniard to be stationed in their territory. That observer and others sighted 20 French ships that summer in Guale's harbors, searching for the lost Prince. The corsair visitors of 1580 found friends among the Guales of Tolomato and Gualequini, but there was no welcome for them from the Guales on Sapelo or St. Catherines islands, nor from the Timucuans at San Juan del Puerto near the mouth of the St. Johns. With the aid of their Indian allies, the Spanish bested the corsairs in the naval Battle of San Mateo, fought near the old site of French Fort Caroline (Relation, 1580). (Bushnell SS)
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