Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents
Pirates; Privateering; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
and thiss being what I can think on att present, being the true
actions of our Voyage as near as I can Remember, my Jornall being
detained att St. Thomases and lost.[111] The Lord be praised for all
his mercyes to us. _Finis._
[Footnote 7: Cassava.]
[Footnote 8: Wafer, pp. 153-154, who lived four months among these
Indians, describes their method of making "corn drink." "It tastes
like sour small Beer, yet 'tis very intoxicating."]
[Footnote 9: The river was that which is now called Chucunaque.]
[Footnote 10: Some affluent of the Chucanaque.]
[Footnote 11: Cartridge.]
[Footnote 12: Still so called. It lies some 15 or 20 miles north of
the gold mines of Cana ("the richest Gold-Mines ever yet found in
America", says Dampier) and from the Cerro Pirre, whence Balboa first
looked at the Pacific, "Silent upon a peak in Darien."]
[Footnote 13: The Tuira, into which the Chucunaque flows at this
point.]
[Footnote 14: Calabash, gourd.]
[Footnote 15: Isla Iguana?]
[Footnote 16: Isla Maje?]
[Footnote 17: Now the Pearl Islands, in the gulf of Panama, southeast
of the city.]
[Footnote 18: Perico, Naos, and Flamenco, three little islands lying
in front of Panama.]
[Footnote 19: Sp. for soldiers.]
[Footnote 20: Don Jacinto de Barahona, high admiral of the South Sea.]
[Footnote 21: Don Francisco de Peralta. The escape of his vessel from
Morgan's men in 1671, bearing the chief treasures, is recounted in
Exquemelin, pt. III., ch. VI. He was put ashore, later, at Coquimbo.]
[Footnote 22: _I.e._, flag-ship. It was probably the same ship, _La
Santissima Trinidad_, of 400 tons, in which Peralta had made his
escape nine years before.]
[Footnote 23: Capt. John Coxon.]
[Footnote 24: Error for April 26, 1688.]
[Footnote 25: Lima. The 50,000 pieces of eight (dollars, pieces of
eight reals) mentioned below were a consignment for expenses, sent to
the governor of Panama by the viceroy of Peru, Archbishop Don Melchor
de Linan. So we learn from an account of this whole raid along the
South American coast, given by him in an official report, printed in
_Memorial de los Vireyes del Peru_ (Lima, 1859), I. 328-335.]
[Footnote 26: Guayaquil, in an attempt at phonetic spelling.]
[Footnote 27: In modern phrase, southwest by west.]
[Footnote 28: Coiba or Quibo is a large island off the south coast of
the isthmus, about 150 miles west of Panama.]
[Footnote 29: Rio Santa Lucia. The town is the present Remedios.]
[Footnote 30: Mestizo, halfbreed, Spanish and Indian.]
[Footnote 31: According to Ringrose, the ring came from the bishop,
the challenge from the governor.]
[Footnote 32: The Isla de Plata (Island of Silver) lies a few miles
off the coast of Ecuador, in 1 deg. 10' S. lat. The Galapagos lie not 100
but more than 200 leagues off the coast.]
[Footnote 33: Gorgona, off the Colombian coast.]
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