Protestant Sea Rovers


way as the English privateers repeated the names St. George,
Charlestown, Jamestown. At Pernambuco, on the Xingu up
the Amazon, in Guiana, on the Hudson the Dutch had Forts
Orange and Nassau. So too on the Island of New Providence,
Bahamas. The Dutch West India Company used to load huge
cargoes of salt in the Bahamas, and so too many of the ships
of Admiral Piet Heyn, according to Dutch and Spanish
records.
 In 1627, the Dutch seaman Captain Cornelis Jol, called
Houtebeen, Peg Leg Jol, or Pie de Palo, came to the Bay of
Honduras by way of Providence with 8 ships of 400 tons in
all. He was then on the "Otter" of 90 tons, 30 soldiers, 58
seamen, 6 larger and 14 smaller guns. At the same time the
fleet of Captain Hendrick Jacobz, called Lucifer, came from
Flushing to the Bay of Honduras by the way of Grand Cay-
mans, commissioned by the Zeeland Chamber of Commerce.
He was on the "Ter Veere," with Captain Gysz on the
"Kater," and Captain Jan Pieterz on the "Leeuwinne." In
1628 a third Dutch fleet was also in the Bay of Honduras un-
der Dirk Simonsz of Uitgeest. These several divisions of the
Dutch Fleet in Caribbean waters co-operated and separated
as opportunity required.
 To "the Lee of Cuba" in 1627 the Dutch met the Almiran-
ta and Capitana galleons from Honduras laden with indigo,
hides and cochineal. With hand grenades the Almiranta was
boarded and taken with great difficulty on account of her
steep sides. Juarros says this fight took place at Puerto Cabal-
los, but the date he gives is a misprint because it differs from
the Dutch, English, French, Yucatec, and Cuban which are
identical with the following entry in the documents of the
Council of the Indies at Seville. "On the 22, November
1627 came news of the arrival of the galleons, less the Al-
miranta ship, from Honduras, which was lost. They arrived
at San Lucar on the 19th, General de la Raspur."
 During several years Captain Jol was a regular visitor with
his fleet to the Lamanay-Cockscomb Coast where he left