On July 28, they issued a call for help from the local settlements.
There were more than twenty thousand people living in "the village," as the local settlement was called.
Moreover, a fire directly in line with the local German settlement.
Spanish missions were the first local settlements almost 300 years ago.
Soldiers need to live from something, so a local civilian settlement developed there.
"One possibility is that a small group of Mesopotamians were living and trading inside the local settlement," he said.
And the local settlement started working on the next ship out of their surplus.
The main occupation of the towns' people is in agriculture, as with many other local settlements.
A side-objective of the mission is to recruit new members for the Resistance from the local settlements.
All other road routes are minor, affording access to local settlements.