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Pagan Indians tried to erase all signs of white missionaries
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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As military entradas fell out of favor, mission entradas [to inland Florida] assumed a paramilitary cast: Indians armed with harquebuses and the Holy Cross emblazoned on a banner, as though the friars were reenacting a Crusade. They returned a good report, like Caleb and Joshua spying out the Land of Promise. The land had rivers for watermills, they said, and forests so clear of underbrush that a horse could run under the trees. All it lacked was to be "peopled," meaning populated and made productive. The Indians were the only problem. Content to live on maize, acorns, roots, fish, and game, they pulled up foreign trees and seedlings and exterminated foreign livestock like vermin, "wishing to leave no trace or smell of us" (Ruiz et al., 1612). (Bushnell SS)
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