[XXXII‑2] Using the word navel somewhat in the sense it is applied to a portion of a shield, that is a projecting part.
[XXXII‑3] The Mosqueto Kingdom, written about 1699, by M. W. in Churchill's Coll. Voy., vi. 309 et seq., London, 1757. It is not improbable that M. W. was a buccaneer, one of those who crossed through Honduras.
[XXXII‑4] [Hist. Cent. Am., i. 294] et seq., this series.
[XXXII‑5] There is a copy of this cédula and of another one dated the same year authorizing the audiencia of Guatemala to allow such a contract. Calvo, Traités, xi. 196-203.
[XXXII‑6] Mosquitolandes, 25. 'Since 1670 the Mosquitos have solicited the protection and sovereignty of Great Britain.' Museo Mexicano, 2da ép. 194.
[XXXII‑7] Mosq. Terr., Offic. Corr., in Mosq. Doc., 60-3. This treaty was ratified by the legislative assembly of Jamaica.
[XXXII‑8] Aranz, Informe sobre los Mosquitos, MS. The report is copied from the archives of the captain-general of Guatemala.
[XXXII‑9] A council was appointed of which the superintendent was president, a court of common pleas, and justices of the peace. Mosq. Terr., Off. Corr., app. iv.
[XXXII‑10] In January 1775, an embassy consisting of Young George, son of the Mosquito king, Isaac his brother, and two Mosquito chiefs, arrived in England. Their main object was to obtain redress for wrongs inflicted upon natives in the interior, whence free men were being continually carried off to the slave markets. On their return voyage they narrowly escaped capture by Spanish cruisers. After landing the passengers at Cape Gracias á Dios the vessel proceeded to her destination at Black River, and was seized while at anchor in the roadstead. Id.
[XXXII‑11] In 1777 some of the principal settlers sent to England two assorted cargoes of sugar, rum, indigo, bark, sarsaparilla, tortoise-shell, and other articles. The sugar on board each vessel was refused admission at the customs. Id.