[XXXII‑22] The number given in a diary of 1780, reprinted in Nic., Bol. Ofic., April 27, 1857, p. 7, is 2,500.
[XXXII‑23] Now Bartola.
[XXXII‑24] Four hundred Mosquitos, and the smugglers brought several pieces of cannon with them. Nic., Bol. Ofic., 29th April, 1857, p. 7.
[XXXII‑25] Nelson in his autobiography thus modestly states his share in the expedition: 'In January 1780 an expedition was resolved on against San Juan. I was chosen to command the sea part of it. Major Polson, who commanded, will tell you of my exertions; how I quitted my ship, carried troops in boats 100 miles up a river, which none but Spaniards, since the time of the Buccaneers, have ever ascended. It will then be told how I boarded (if I may be allowed the expression) an outpost of the enemy situated on an island in the river; that I made batteries and afterwards fought them, and that I was a principal cause of our success.'
[XXXII‑26] In 1803 Nelson writes: 'The fever which destroyed the army and navy attached to that expedition was invariably from thirty to forty days before it attacked the new comers, and I cannot give a stronger instance than that in the Hinchinbrook [Nelson's ship], with a complement of 200 men, 87 took to their beds in one night.'
[XXXII‑27] Statements differ as to the losses of the British. 'This expedition cost the English 5,000 lives and £1,000,000.' Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 174. Three million dollars and 4,000 men. Nic. Gac. Sup. Gob., 92, 'Les Anglais furent obligés de se retirer honteusement après avoir perdu 4,000 hommes et dépensé plus de trois millions de piastres, selon le témoignage du colonel Hodgson.' Belly, Nic., i. 30.
[XXXII‑28] Nic., Cor. Ist., in Cent. Am. Pap., iii. 322. News of his appointment, was received in Mexico Nov. 2, 1701. Robles, Diario, iii. 332, 495. It is added that he resigned the office and no allusion is made to any promotion.
[XXXII‑29] Alcedo, Dic., iii. 325. It is simply said: 'He did not go to his diocese,' in N. Esp., Breve Resúmen, ii. 387; but in Nic., 'He was elected in 1727, and died in the city of Seville while preparing to embark.' Correo del Istmo, in Cent. Am. Papers, iii. 322.
[XXXII‑30] Castro, Diario, in Doc. Hist. Mex., série i. tom. iv. 235-7, 239-41, 253; v. 6-7, 12-13, 39-40, 109; vi. 27. Alcedo, Dic., iii. 326, with his usual carelessness, says he died in 1757. In Flores y Rivera, Elegios, in Pap. Var., 75, it is said: 'Very warm eulogies were pronounced upon the deceased at the university of Mexico on the 29th of October 1756.'
[XXXII‑31] Not mentioning the lesser ones, 10 large volcanoes came in the following order: Tortuga, Rincon de la Vieja, Heridenda, Miravalles, Cuecualapa, Thenorio, Pelado, Buenavista, Chomes, and Aguacate. Nouv. Annales de Voy., cli. 9.