Protestant Sea Rovers


2,300 men. Drake and Hawkins were not interested in estab-
lishing colonies, but Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter
Raleigh, and Richard Hakluyt were most decidedly so, and
to these three men who wished to found an English empire
beyond the seas we have to look for the beginning of British
Honduras.
 On the maps of the early 17th century the coast of what is
now British Honduras was designated by four names, Ybob,
Lamanay, Zacatan, and Pantoja, which the German and
Italian cartographers indifferently marked outside the reef
as if they were all islands. This was due to the maps' lack of
space in the deep bay, but in the Florentine map, Sir Robert
Dudley's "Dell'Arcane del Mare, 1646-1647," they are more
correctly placed. Ybob is a degeneration of Hibueras after
passing through the stages Yboreas and Ybueras, and it is the
region between the Motagua River and Punta Ycacos. Lama-
nay is Turneffe and the opposite mainland which includes
the site where Belize now stands and the Manattee Lagoon.
Zacatan or Zaratan, land of sea weed and edible crabs, refer
to Cangrehoy. Pantoja is the Chinchorro reef. The land
called Zaguatan in the Carta Quinta of the conqueror Her-
nan Cortes to the Emperor Charles the Fifth is the region
between the Lake of Peten and the Bay of Ascension. Father
Lopez de Cogolludo, who was born in Alcala de Henares, had
twice visited the Rio Dulce, and had visited convents in
Guatemala as secretary to a high prelate visited here from
Mexico City and Bacalar in the middle of the seventeenth
century and says-"Lamanay or Lamayna has a large lagoon
on its shore which is formed by the rivers and other waters
that adjoin them. It has great abundance of turtle fishing,
and the different fresh water fishes are of very good taste. As
there are not many of the troublesome mosquitos travelling
was delightful on these rivers, the views pleasant, and the
Indians wounded the fishes by means of harpoons without
detaining the journey in so doing. One crosses the lagoon