[19] I.e., with marks like those here given in the margin.
[20] Not identified.
[21] San Cristoval de la Laguna, an old town on Teneriffe, four miles inland from Santa Cruz.
[22] In the summer of 1740, when the expedition against Cartagena, under Vernon and Cathcart, was being planned, Capt. James Abercromby was made judge-advocate-general to the military forces. Gent. Mag., X. 358. This was the same Abercromby who afterward failed so lamentably as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America, and at Ticonderoga, 1758.
[23] Aruba lies in the southernmost part of the Caribbean, off the Venezuelan coast and west of Curaçao.
[24] A portledge bill was a register of sailors' names and claims for wages or allowances.
[25] On the west coast of Morocco; the famous modern Agadir.
[26] On the Venezuelan mainland, south of Aruba and southwest of Curaçao.
[27] The Spanish flag bore red horizontal stripes on a yellow ground.
[28] No. 6 above.