[XXX‑10] Here Doctor Wafer and four others, including the two stragglers, stayed behind. They rejoined their comrades, however, some months later. Id., 19, 24; Wafer's Voy., 4-43.
[XXX‑11] One day they crossed the same stream 22 times in a march of nine miles. Dampier's Voy., i. 19.
[XXX‑12] For two days they were entirely without food. On the third 'we got Macaw-berries ... wherewith we satisfied ourselves this day though coursly.' Id., 20. These berries were probably the fruit of the great Macaw-tree, acrocomia sclerocarpa.
[XXX‑13] One of the Samballas group which extends about 20 leagues from Point Samballas to Golden Island. These islands had, since 1679, been a favorite place for careening, and so had become a rendezvous for privateers, many of them being named after captains of vessels, as in the case of La Sound Key. Id., 22-3.
[XXX‑14] Davis, according to Exquemelin, was born in Jamaica. Bucaniers of Amer., 49. Lussan, in Id., 26, states that he was a Fleming. The first author gives a brief narrative, without date, of a bold raid made by this buccaneer into Nicaragua from the Atlantic side. In this enterprise he must have passed up the San Juan River, on the banks of which the pirates, 80 in number, concealed themselves by day, and rowed during the night. What city it was they attacked is not clear, but the booty obtained was more than 50,000 pesos.
[XXX‑15] Davis left to the cacique a bark half full of flour as a reward for his services. Eaton departed on the 2d of September, having taken on board 400 sacks of flour. Id., 129; Drake's Col. Voy., 59.
[XXX‑16] So named according to report by the Spaniards, from the fact that Drake there divided among his men the silver with which one of his prizes was laden. Dampier's Voy., 132. It was also called Drake Island.
[XXX‑17] Lussan gives an account different from that of Dampier. He states that an engineer on board Swan's ship told him that she belonged to the duke of York and had been sent out to take a plan of those parts, and that Swan falling in with Davis was compelled to join him because 'il aima mieux ceder au Forban que d'en être pris.' Journal du Voy., 64-5.
[XXX‑18] One was captured while hunting, and the other was one of Captain Harris' men who had been left on the Santa María River the year before. Dampier's Voy., 177-8, 186-7.
[XXX‑19] Dampier states that a Captain Bond planned this stratagem. Bond had been abandoned by Eaton and his own pilot, Morton, and persuaded his men to go over to the Spaniards. Id., 189-90.