[Footnote 9: Isla de Pinos, on the north coast of the republic of Panama, some 130 miles east of Portobello. "Samblowes" is a corruption of San Blas (Islands), in the gulf of San Blas.] [Footnote 10: Woolded, wound around with cables, "undergirded" like St. Paul's ship, Acts xxvii. 27. [Transcriber's Note: Correct verse is 17.]] [Footnote 11: Cartagena. Forta is the present Isla Fuerte, southwestward from Cartagena along the coast of Colombia. The "Friends Islands" are the islands of San Bernardo, lying between the two.] [Footnote 12: Sloops.] [Footnote 13: Periaguas or pirogues, like large canoes but with a square stern.] [Footnote 14: Isla de Pinos, just west of the gulf of Darien; see note 9, above.] [Footnote 15: Isla de Oro and its companions, a few miles south of Isla de Pinos.] [Footnote 16: 9 deg. 4', more nearly.] [Footnote 17: A small galley, with both sails and oars.] [Footnote 18: Darien.] [Footnote 19: One of the San Blas Islands, perhaps Cayo Holandes. The buccaneers were proceeding westward.] [Footnote 20: Sp. _ladrones_, robbers.] [Footnote 21: For "forlorn hope," which is from the Dutch _verloren hoop_, lost troop.] [Footnote 22: Puerto de Bastimentos is a harbor about twelve miles northeast of Portobello. Columbus in his fourth voyage (1502) gave the place its name, "Port of Provisions."] [Footnote 23: Tissue.] [Footnote 24: Panama.] [Footnote 25: _Barca longa_, a large Spanish fishing-boat, with lug-sails.] [Footnote 26: Shared.] [Footnote 27: The Boca del Toro and Boca del Drago ("bull's mouth" and "dragon's mouth") are entrances on either side of the Isla de Colon, at the western extremity of the republic of Panama.] [Footnote 28: On Isla Solarte, near the Boca del Toro.] [Footnote 29: Westward, here.] [Footnote 30: 1680.] _45. The Buccaneers on the Isthmus and in the South Sea. 1680-1682._[1] [Footnote 1: British Museum, Sloane MSS., 2752, fol. 36. The chief narrative of these piratical adventures, and a remarkably interesting one, is that of Basil Ringrose, which constitutes the second volume of Exquemelin; see note 1 to document 44. There are also the narrative signed "W.D." and those attributed to Capt. Bartholomew Sharp (notes 1 and 3, _ibid._), and very brief accounts in William Dampier's _New Voyage around the World_ (London, 1697) and in Lionel Wafer's _A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America_ (London, 1699). The present narration is by still another participant, illiterate but not incapable of telling an interesting story, with many additional details.] The Journall of our Intended Voyage by the assistance of God over land into the South seas leaveing our ships att the goulden Islands, and landing on Munday Apr'll the fift, Annoque 1682.