Footnote 520: [(return)]
Narrative of de Pointis.
Footnote 521: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1696-97, Nos. 373-376, 413, 661, 769.
Footnote 522: [(return)]
Ibid., Nos. 715, 868.
Footnote 523: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1696-97, Nos. 375, 453.
Footnote 524: [(return)]
Ibid., 944. 978.
Footnote 525: [(return)]
The mouth of the harbour, called Boca Chica, was defended by a fort with 4 bastions and 33 guns; but the guns were badly mounted on flimsy carriages of cedar, and were manned by only 15 soldiers. Inside the harbour was another fort called Santa Cruz, well-built with 4 bastions and a moat, but provided with only a few iron guns and without a garrison. Two other forts formed part of the exterior works of the town, but they had neither garrison nor guns. The city itself was surrounded by solid walls of stone, with 12 bastions and 84 brass cannon, to man which there was a company of 40 soldiers. Such was the war footing on which the Spanish Government maintained the "Key of the Indies." (Duro, op. cit., v. p. 287.)
Footnote 526: [(return)]
Narrative of de Pointis. Cf. Charlevoix, op cit., liv. xi., for the best account of the whole expedition.
Footnote 527: [(return)]
Charlevoix, op. cit., liv. xi. p. 352.
In one of the articles of capitulation which the Governor of Cartagena obtained from de Pointis, the latter promised to leave untouched the plate, jewels and other treasure of the churches and convents. This article was not observed by the French. On the return of the expedition to France, however, Louis XIV. ordered the ecclesiastical plate to be sequestered, and after the conclusion of the Peace of Ryswick sent it back to San Domingo to be delivered to the governor and clergy of the Spanish part of the island. (Duro, op. cit., v. pp. 291, 296-97).
Footnote 528: [(return)]
Duro, op. cit., v. p. 310.
Footnote 529: [(return)]
C.S.P. Colon., 1669-74, No. 697.