[XXVI‑20] About ten leagues distant from Cartago.
[XXVI‑21] Juarros, Guat. (London, ed. 1823), 344-5. Bonilla took two men who were foot-sore. When asked the reason of their precipitate flight from so small a number, they stated that they had seen a numerous army marching against them. Haya, Informe, MS., 11-12.
[XXVI‑22] According to Juarros the prisoners made this confession under torture. Haya does not mention this.
[XXVI‑23] 'Ujarraz, pueblo en otro tiempo considerable, pero en el dia mui desdichado.' Juarros, Guat., i. 58-9. It is two leagues distant from Cartago. Id.
[XXVI‑24] According to an account of this recapture of Santa Catarina by a Spanish engineer, it occurred in August 1665. A translation of the Spanish version of the affair is to be found in Exquemelin, De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, 76-80, and in the English translation of the latter work in Bucaniers of America, i. 82-5. In the French edition of Exquemelin the Spanish narrative is thus dismissed: '[J'aurois pu la traduire, & en gaossir ce Volume], mais comme elle n'est remplie que de bagatelles & de rodomontades Espagnoles, je ne m'en fuis pas donné la peine, ne voulant rien raconter ici que de véritable.' Hist. des Flib., ii. 10.
[XXVII‑1] Panamá, Reales Cédulas, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 349-50.
[XXVII‑2] In 1604 Andrés Cortés was alcalde ordinario, Francisco Terii alguacil mayor, and Capt. Damian Mendez and others regidores. The names of the members for 1605 are also mentioned. Id., 228-32.
[XXVII‑3] 'A peculiar kind of wine very much in use at Seville,'says Salva, in Dic. Leng Cast., 54, 784; Panamá, Reales Cédulas, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 228-30.
[XXVII‑4] The penalties were 50 pesos for the first offence; 100 for a second offence, and for the third perpetual banishment. The law was passed Sept. 23, 1605, and was approved by the audiencia. Id., 230-3. The evil increased, and in Dec. 1614 an act declared offenders punishable by fine of 50 pesos for the first offence, and 100 pesos and banishment for the second. Recop. de Indias, ii. 362.
[XXVII‑5] In West Indies, Geog. and Hist. Descr., the number of men aboard is stated at 300. In an appendix to Carranza, Descr. Coast W. Indias, 118, containing Parker's own account of the taking of Portobello, the latter mentions that he landed with 150 men, and it may be presumed that he left at least 50 in charge of his ships.