38 The Beginning of British Honduras
name of their associate Glover, then to their anchorage at the
fort and the stand by way of the Tobacco Caye channel. The
trade wind dictated this course which was very accommodat-
ing. The Spaniards of the Honduras and Guatemala coasts
were glad to get the English merchandise smuggled to them
from the Stands with the proper contraband formalities like
selling at night and gifts for the commandant.
 Already in 1507 did Pedro Ledesma link what later became
"The Shore" and "The Bay" with the word Caria or Cariay,
because he found the Moskito Indians in both areas and was
struck with the many similarities of the coast around Cape
Gracias a Dios and that lying at the foot of the Cockscomb.
The words "shore" and "bay" arose with the Providence
colonists. From their island its meaning could not be mis-
taken. Words like Nicaragua, Honduras, and Yucatan were
foreign and only meant to them places where Spaniards lived.
The "Shore" and the "Bay" were not occupied by these en-
emies, whilst the friendly Moskito Indians were familiar with
both areas for it was their traditional practice to raid the in-
land Maya plantations for booty. They were matchless canoe-
men, paddled distances of 300 miles, invulnerable when they
returned to the depths of their forests. When the European
privateers came along they took to them like ducks to water,
recalling how the Spanish slave raiders had lessened their
numbers at the "Shore" and almost exterminated them at the
"Bay." The region called four times "the Mosquitos" in the
State Papers is not the diminutive Mosquito Cayes off Cape
Gracias a Dios. The Mosquitos, as a geographic designation
for the Bay and the Shore is of Huguenot corsair origin, and
belongs to the same class of names they used for the regions
they frequented like, the Brazils, the Guayanas, the Barba-
does, the Floridas, the Canibales. In Ziock's dictionary the
Moskito name for Belize, the coronation city of the Moskito
king, is given as Bey.
 Tobacco was grown by the Mayas in pre-Colombian times.
They rolled the prepared leaves into the form of a pencil