[Footnote 59: This was a Mosquito Indian named William. A precursor of Alexander Selkirk, he lived alone upon the island for more than three years, till in March, 1684, when Capt. Edward Davis, in the _Batchellor's Delight_, in his voyage from the Chesapeake, touched at the island. William Dampier and several others of Captain Sharp's crew were now with Davis. They bethought them of William, and found and rescued him. Dampier, _New Voyage_, I. 84-87, describes the Crusoe-like expedients by which the ingenious William maintained himself. He was not the first precursor of Selkirk on the island, for Ringrose, p. 119, says that the pilot of their ship told this present crew of buccaneers "that many years ago a certain ship was cast away upon this Island, and onely one man saved, who lived alone upon the Island five years before any ship came this way to carry him off." Several of Davis's men lived there three years, 1687-1690. Selkirk's stay was in 1704-1709.] [Footnote 60: Iquique.] [Footnote 61: Barros Arana, _Historia Jeneral de Chile_, V. 204-205, points out the impossibility of such numbers.] [Footnote 62: Sp. _lingua_, language.] [Footnote 63: In better Spanish, "Valientes soldados, buen valientes soldados", _i.e._ "Valiant soldiers, very valiant soldiers".] [Footnote 64: Ilo, between Islay and Arica.] [Footnote 65: Choros bay must be meant. The present Obispo lies too far north, and was not named till 1709.] [Footnote 66: Ringrose identifies this bay and river with the bay and river of Loa, on the Chilean coast, the bay in 21 deg. 28' S. lat. That Drake landed there, in his voyage around the world, in January, 1579, we know from the narrative of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (Mrs. Nuttall's _New Light on Drake_, p. 80), but the story of the chapel is of course legendary.] [Footnote 67: Water-barrels, Middle Dutch _bommekijn_, a little barrel.] [Footnote 68: Truxillo, in Peru. The islands may have been the Lobos.] [Footnote 69: Monte Christi, in Ecuador. The secession occurred on April 17, 1681. Dampier and Wafer were in the seceding party, which made its way to the isthmus of Darien and so across to the Caribbean and home, or to Virginia.] [Footnote 70: Isla de Canos, in Coronada Bay, off the coast of Costa Rica, and some 300 miles west of Panama.] [Footnote 71: Golfo Dulce, where the coast of Costa Rica begins.] [Footnote 72: The gulf of Nicoy lies near the western end of the Costa Rican coast. The island was Chira.] [Footnote 73: It does not appear that there was in Costa Rica at that time any town of such name or size.] [Footnote 74: Under this strange name is disguised Jacobus Marques, a Dutchman skilled in many languages. _The Voyages and Adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp_, p. 80, says that he "left behind him 2200 _ps._ 8/8 [pieces of eight, dollars] besides Jewels and Goods". "Copas" is for Jacobus.] [Footnote 75: Barcalongas. See document 44, note 25.] [Footnote 76: Colors, flags.] [Footnote 77: Prizes or booty.]