30 The Beginning of British Honduras
Dutch names at the areas he frequented. The name Caye
Bokel is from the Dutch word "bokel," meaning the hump,
bend, or buckle of the Turneffe group and refers to the
geographic position. Jol's Hole near the buckle is named
after him, for there he anchored many times for weeks. From
there he carried out his forays. One of the Sapodilla Cayes is
called "Hontin Caye," the Dutch for ghost, a name given in
the days when the Flying Dutchman's ghost vessel was often
seen. Haunted Caye and Hunting Caye are subsequent varia-
tions. The name Turneffe is of Huguenot origin. It was
given by a group of Huguenot Walloon colonists brought
there from Holland by the Dutch West India Company in
Captain Jol's time, in the same way as they took other Hugue-
not Walloon colonists to New Amsterdam.
 Captain Cornelis Jol was the most daring, persistent, and
enterprising of the Dutch leaders who operated in the Bay,
and because he attacked at so many places the Spaniards
chose to regard him as the Dutch counterpart of Drake. He
was born at Scheveningen in the beginning of the seventeenth
century, and as a lad his left leg was shattered by a cannon
ball. Later he became admiral, and in the service of the
Dutch West India Company in 1638 he commanded three
divisions, each with a dozen ships, and waited in the Yucatan
Channel for the Plate Fleet. Here he was unsuccessful. His
captains, with only two exceptions, refused to support his
attacks through personal envy and through a belief that the
huge Spanish galleons were too heavily armed and too well
prepared for this emergency by Admiral Carlos de Ibarra.
In 1641 he left Pernambuco with a fleet of 20 ships and 3,000
sailors and soldiers, took Sao Paulo de Loanda in West Africa
and died in the same year at Sao Tome of yellow fever.
 Lucifer, the constant ally of Captain Jol, was a native of
Havana and had spent his boyhood in Campeche. The Span-
iards called him Diego el Mulato, or Renegado. In 1648 he
and his Dutch crew captured the English missionary Thomas
Gage in the outer Bay of Honduras. Friar Gage who had