[6] Warwick Fort overlooked the harbor from its north side. Capt. Samuel Axe, mentioned below, a soldier of the Dutch wars, had made the fortifications of the island.
[7] Tierra Firma, the Spanish Main, or north coast of South America.
[8] Roncador means snorer; the cay is still called by that name. The story of this man's shipwreck and preservation figures in Increase Mather's Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (London, 1684), ch. II. The famous U.S.S. Kearsarge was wrecked on the Roncadores in 1894.
[9] Orange.
[10] Capt. Andrew Carter succeeded Butler, as deputy governor, and lost the island to the Spaniards.
[11] Rev. Hope Sherrard, one of the two ministers of the island, and a rigid Puritan, which Governor Butler was not.
[12] Apparently the party led, through remarkable adventures, by the other minister, Rev. Nicholas Leverton. See Calamy, Nonconformists' Memorial, I. 371.
[13] At the extreme north point of the island.
[14] The queen of Bohemia for whom the pinnace had been named was the princess Elizabeth, the ill-fated daughter of James I.
[15] Capt. Robert Hunt, governor 1636-1638, and an experienced soldier.