of old residents and pioneers, of which he considers the recitals by Vallejo the most important out of the one hundred and sixty of those whose activity was noticeable before 1848. He acknowledges that he has found much of this latter material a strange and inexplicable mixture of truth and fiction, but he claims to have guarded his narrative wherein it has been used by the corroboration and corrections of official documents.1 There are two among the local histories which have something more than a local scope: the Annals of San Francisco (N. Y., 1855), by Frank Soulé and others, and John S. Hittell's Hist. of San Francisco (1878, etc.). The bibliography of Yucatan has been elsewhere given, to be supplemented by titles in the list prefixed to Bancroft's Central America? The Papers relative to the rupture with 1 California, i. p. viii; ix. 54, 56, 57; Califor- San José (1871); Warner and Hayes, Lor Anmia Pastoral, 700. * The various commercially prompted county histories hardly need enumeration. There are a few good local monographs: Frederick Hall's geles. * Ante, II. 429. • The old Hitoria de Yucathan (1688) of Cogulludo was continued to 1650 only, and was • From a map compiled by Dudley Costello, 1854, given in C. St. J. Fancourt's Hist, of Yucatan (1 ondin, 1854). Cf. ante, II. 384. Spain (London, 1672) gives the diplomatic fence between the two countries relative to the English occupancy of Campeche and Yucatan by their cutters of logwood. For a later period see Serapio Banquiero's Ensayo histórico sobre las Revolucionas de Yucatan (Merida, 1871-72). The bibliography of Guatemala has been already sketched (ante, II. p. 419), some of the works coming down to the later period; but the main recourse for titles is, as before, Bancroft's list to his Central America (vol. i.) and his general review of sources (vol. ii. pp. 735-762), covering the colonial period of the Central American provinces, which is mainly, however, a grouping of various published collections of voyages, which include such as touched at some point the Spanish-American coasts. The Spanish contributions never completed as the title promised. Los tres Siglos de la dominacion Española en Yucatan, ó sea Historia de esta provincia desde la conquista hasta la independencia (vol. i., Campeche, 1842; ii., Merida, 1845). 1 The book also sets forth the French claim to catching cod on the Newfoundland banks because of early visits of the Biscayans to those parts, while the English urged the priority of Cabot (Stevens, Bibl. Geog., no. 2588). The question was still pending when it was settled by a convention between Spain and England, July 14, 1786, in accordance with which Faden, the English cartographer, issued a Map of the part of Yucatan allotted to Great Britain for the cutting of logwood (London, 1787). From Prévost's Voyages (Paris, 1754), vol. xii. 8 to this class of books are scant, and even the interest throughout Europe which instigated the allied publications of Green in England, of Prévost in France, and of the Allgemeine Hist. der Reisen in Leipzig had no corresponding issue in Spain. This lack must be supplied by the editorial work of José Terrer de Couto and José March y Labores upon the Historia de la Marina Real Española (Madrid, 1849, 1854), by the voyage of Drake, by the maritime expeditions up the California coast, and by other literary aspects of Spanish Cardiage asquez •Sucirs STA RICA R. de los Anzuelos Boca grande el Portete Rde la Conception R.S.Antene R dos Talemanais nthase rumce Re los Doracer Cultras C.Blanc Golphe des Salines R. de La Caldera Esparza Rde Carth D Port de l'Anglo Pointe Mala 1 del Carn R Estrella Сисро Golphe Dulce Cap Beruca des Berucas meduos Montura I. Colba Baya on 85 American naval history. The Nuevo Viajero Universal of N. Fernandez Cuesta (Madrid, 1859) covers the later times. The distinctive missionary efforts in Guatemala of the later period came through the founding of the Bethlehemite order in 1673, and the labors of their founder are described in the Storia della Vita, Virtú, Donni e Grazzie del Pietro di S. Giuseppe Betancur, fondatore dell' ordine Betlemitico nelle Indie occidentali (Rome, 1739), and the vicis 1 Cf. ante, Vol. I., Introd. situdes of the order are followed in José Garcia de la Concepcion's Historia Bethlehemitica (Seville, 1723). The provinces of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama are still best represented in the list in Bancroft's Central America, vol. i. (particularly pp. xlvi, liv, lvii, lxv, lxxi). The early documentary sources are best gathered in the Coleccions of Peralta and Fernandez.1 The descriptive travels of Gage, Coreal, Uring, and Cockburn afford us the observations of their time. The latest survey of the history of the Balize is in A. R. Gibbs' British Honduras: an historical and descriptive account of the colony from its settlement, 1670. Compiled from original and authentic sources (London, 1883). Macaulay, in his Hist. of England, gives a readable account of the unfortunate Scotch colony at Darien, based largely upon the numerous contemporary publications.* 1 Ante, II. pp. ix, 398. 2 Thos. Gage, The English-American, his travail by sea and land, first issued in London, 1648, and often later in various tongues (Carter-Brown, ii. p. 612; Sabin's Dictionary). François Coreal, Voyages aux Indes occidentales (Paris and Amsterdam, 1722). Captain Nathaniel Uring's History of [his] Voyages and Travels (London, 1726), with a map of the Bay of Honduras. John Cockburn's A journey overland from the gulf of Honduras to the great South Sea. Performed by John Cockburn, and five other Englishmen, viz., Thomas Rounce, Richard Banister, John Holland, Thomas Robinson, and John Ballman [etc.], 1731 (London, 1735). It was reprinted as The Unfortunate Englishman (London, 1740, 1779). 3 Cf. also Bancroft's Cent. America, ii. ch. 31; Berthold Seeman's Hist. of the Isthmus of Panama (Panama, 1867); Retrospective Review, n. s., ii.; Burney's Chronol. Hist. Disc. in the South Seas; and Edward Cullen's Isthmus of Darien ship canal; with a full history of the Scotch colony of Darien, several maps, views of the country, and original documents, 2d ed., enlarged. [With Appendix.] (London, 1853.) An act of the Parliament of Scotland for erecting an East India Company (Edinburgh, 1695; London, 1695). Darien, where the Scots colonie is settled, from a gentleman who lives there . . . and a mapp of the Isthmus (Edinburgh, 1699). A description of the Province and Bay of Darien, by I [saac] B[lackwell] (1699). A short account from, and description of the Isthmus of Darien, where the Scots' collony are settled, with a map. according to our late news and Mr. Dampier and Mr. Wafer (Edinburgh, 1699). Observations of a person of eminence and worth in Caledonia (Mr. Patterson) written to his friend in Boston, N. E., on their Scots' settlement, New Edinburgh, at Darien in America. St. Andrews, Feb. 18, 1698-99 (Boston, 1699). Samuel Sewall's Letter Book (i. 227, 242) shows a letter which he wrote to the ministers of the colony, and also the Latin contract of surrender later imposed upon the colonists by the Spaniards. The humble address to his majesty, 12th Feb., 1699 (London, 1699). Letter from the Commission of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland to the Honorable Council and inhabitants of the Scots Colony of Caledonia in America, Glasgow, July 21, 1699 (Glasgow, 1699). A just and modest vindication of the Scots' design for the having established a colony at Darien Act for a company trading to Africa and the (London, 1699). Indies, June 26, 1695 (Edinburgh, 1696). Constitution of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies (Edinburgh, 1696). Some seasonable and modest thoughts, partly occasioned by and partly concerning the Scots East India Company (Edinburgh, 1696). A letter from a member of the Parliament of Scotland to his friend in London, concerning their late act for establishing a company of that kingdom, trading to Africa and the Indies (London, 1696). Two discourses concerning the affairs of Scotland, written in the year 1698 (Edinburgh, 1698); one concerns the Scots' company. Information touchant l'affaire de Darien (1699), the Spanish protest against the colony. A letter giving a description of the Isthmus of A Defence of the Scots' Settlement at Darien, with an Answer to prove that it is the Interest of England to join with the Scots and protect it; to which is added a Description of the Country, and a Particular Account of the Scots' Colony (Edinburgh, 1699). The Defence of the Scots' Settlement at Darien answered Paragraph by Paragraph, by Philo Britain (1699). A Letter giving a Description of the Isthmus of Darien (where the Scots' Colonie is settled, from a gentleman who lives there at present) with an account of the Fertilness of the Soil, the Quality of the Air, the Manners of the Inhabitants, and the Nature of the Plants and Animals, &c., and a particular Map of the Isthmus and Entrance to the River of Darien (Edinburgh, 1699). |