[XXIV-4] In addition to the regular troops of one company of artillery and one battalion of infantry, distributed in various places, there were militia forces comprising one battalion of white and one of colored soldiers at Panamá, an equal force at Natá, one battalion of whites in Veragua, and seven companies infantry and artillery scattered in different places. Bol. Of. (1868), 32.
[XXIV-5] Arosemena, Apunt., 10-11, gives several titles of such books, of which as specimens may be mentioned Las Fábulas de Samaniego, El Año Cristiano, El Semanario Santo.
[XXIV-6] There was a college de propaganda fide of Franciscans; convents of barefooted Augustinians, Dominicans, and the order of Mercy; nunneries of la Concepcion and San Juan de Dios; moreover a hospital, and a charitable institution, dedicated to Santo Tomás de Villanueva, for poor women. Hospitals belonging to the order of San Juan de Dios existed likewise at Natá and Portobello. Bol. Of. (1868), 32.
[XXIV-7] The transportation into town was effected at night, and generally in packages, similar in size and shape to those used for carrying country products to market. Arosemena, Apunt., 8.
[XXIV-8] Prompted by the Franciscans, public processions were held, at which some persons wore crowns of thorns, others carried heavy crosses on their shoulders, or ropes round their necks, etc.
[XXIV-9] Full particulars on this point have been given in connection with the histories of Mexico and Guatemala for that period.
[XXIV-10] Distinctions of classes, resulting from differences of color, were natural enough; but the rivalry was now intense between natives of Spain, and Americans of pure Spanish descent.
[XXIV-11] The permission was granted by the governor of Panamá, and never revoked even though its political influence became apparent, because of the increase of revenue resulting from that trade. Bol. Of. (1868), 72.
[XXIV-12] A detailed account of the occurrences at Cartagena is given in Restrepo, Hist. Col., ii. 165-8.
[XXIV-13] The governor of Panamá had hastened to send an auxiliary force of several hundred men, but it arrived too late. Arosemena, Apunt., 19.