[Footnote 194: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. p. 36; Vaissiere, _op. cit._, p. 10.] [Footnote 195: According to Dutertre, Deschamps' commission extended only to the French inhabitants upon Tortuga, the French and English living thereafter under separate governments as at St. Kitts. Dutertre, t. iii. p. 135.] [Footnote 196: Rawl. MSS., A. 347, f. 36. According to Dutertre's version, Watts had scarcely forsaken the island when Deschamps arrived in the Road, and found that the French inhabitants had already made themselves masters of the colony and had substituted the French for the English standard. Dutertre, t. iii. p. 136.] [Footnote 197: Rawl. MSS., A. 347, f. 36.] [Footnote 198: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 648.] [Footnote 199: Dutertre, t. iii. p. 138; Vaissiere, _op. cit._, p. 11, note 2.] [Footnote 200: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, No. 233.] [Footnote 201: Ibid., No. 364.] [Footnote 202: Ibid., No. 390; _cf._ also No. 474 (1).] [Footnote 203: Ibid., No. 475.] [Footnote 204: Beeston's Journal, 1st March 1663. According to Dutertre, some inhabitants of Tortuga ran away to Jamaica and persuaded the governor that they could no longer endure French domination, and that if an armed force was sent, it would find no obstacle in restoring the English king's authority. Accordingly Col. Barry was despatched to receive their allegiance, with orders to use no violence but only to accept their voluntary submission. When Barry landed on Tortuga, however, with no other support than a proclamation and a harangue, the French inhabitants laughed in his face, and he returned to Jamaica in shame and confusion. Dutertre, t. iii. pp. 137-38.] [Footnote 205: C.S.P. Colon., 1661-68, Nos. 817-21.] CHAPTER V PORTO BELLO AND PANAMA