[82] The population comprised 256 men, 190 women, 489 white children, 275 able negroes, and 178 negro children.
[83] The landfall of Columbus is known to have been one of the Bahama Islands. Opinion is divided between Watling Island and Cat Island. Rogers’s letter lends support to the latter.
[84] In the following year he was chosen as one of the Council of the Bahamas. He was afterwards one of the three chief merchants of the Royal African Company, and died in 1735 “at Whydah, on the coast of Africa.”
[85] The Sovereigns; two remarkable rocky islets eastward of Kinsale Harbour; Big Sovereign (92 ft. high) and Little Sovereign.
[86] It appears from the will of Francis Rogers, part owner of the Duke and Dutchess, that Noblett Rogers was his brother. They were sons of Robert Rogers of Cork. The relationship to Woodes Rogers is uncertain. (“Notes & Queries,” Ser. X, vol. 9, p. 456.)
[87] Rear-Admiral Sir George Saunders, born about 1671. Entered R.N. 1689. Present at the Battle of La Hogue. With Rooke at Cadiz & Vigo. Appointed to the Shoreham in 1705 and continued in her till 1710, cruising in the Irish Sea. Captain of the Barfleur in defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro. Knighted 1720 and afterwards a Commissioner of the Navy. Died 5 Dec. 1734.
[88] A mixture of beer and spirit, sweetened with sugar and heated.
[89] An officer who has been deprived of a command but retains his rank and pay. The term was also occasionally employed to designate a volunteer.
[90] i.e. Yawl; a boat usually rowed with 4 or 6 oars.
[91] The Archduke Charles of Austria, whom the Allies in 1703 proposed to make King of Spain, as Charles III.