[II-17] _Merritt and Davis_, in _Hist. Mag._, vol. iv., pp. 176, 274. [II-18] In a work which I have not seen. That author's _Coup d'Œuil sur la République de Costa Rica_, and _Memoir on the Boundary Question_, furnish no information on the subject. [II-19] _Wagner and Scherzer_, _Costa Rica_, pp. 465-6, 471, 522-4, 561. [II-20] _Squier's Nicaragua_, (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., pp. 338-9, and plate. [II-21] _Boyle's Ride_, vol. ii., p. 86; _Hist. Mag._, vol. vi., p. 119. [II-22] _Boyle's Ride_, vol. i., pp. 25-6. [II-23] _Meagher_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xx., p. 317. [II-24] _Reichardt_, _Cent. Amer._, pp. 121-2. [II-25] _Squier's Nicaragua_, p. 511. [II-26] _Pownal_, in _Archæologia_, vol. v., p. 318, pl. xxvi.; _Humboldt_, _Vues_, tom. ii., p. 205, pl. xiii.; (Ed. in folio, pl. xxxix.); _Id._, in _Antiq. Mex._, tom. i., div. ii., pp. 27-8, tom. ii., suppl. pl. vii., fig. xi. [II-27] _Colon_, _Carta_, in _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. i., p. 307; _Helps' Span. Conq._, vol. ii., p. 138. [II-28] _Boyle's Ride_, vol. i., pp. 296-9; _Pim and Seemann's Dottings_, p. 401. [II-29] _Bard's (E. G. Squier) Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore_, pp. 216-17, 254, 258-60. The 'King of the Mosquitos' somewhat severely criticised the work, in which, by the way, His Royal Highness is not very reverently spoken of, as 'a pack of lies, especially when it was notorious that the author had never visited the Mosquito Coast.' _Pim and Seemann's Dottings_, p. 271. 'Le désert qui s'étend le long de la côte de la mer des Antilles, depuis le golfe Dulce jusqu'à l'isthme de Darien, n'a pas offert jusqu'à présent de vestiges indiquant que le peuple auquel on doit les monuments de Palenquè, de Quiragua, de Copan, ait émigré au sud de l'isthme.' _Friederichsthal_, in _Nouvelles Annales des Voy._, 1841, tom. xcii., p. 301.