44 The Beginning of British Honduras
to, Lucifer, who lived for a time at the Renegade Caye and
Old Providence was their main lookout and ally at this ad-
vanced post. The State Papers of 1632 condemned the in-
discretion of Captain Daniel Elfrith, Admiral of Providence
and father-in-law of Governor Philip Bell, in too friendly
entertaining him against advice of council.
 With their well-trained men and well-served cannons they
feared nobody. In God and their weapons they confided. In
any case battle would be avoided and the Spaniards lured to
the ordnance at either the north or the south fort. If the
"Jonathan," "Scipio," or other of their vessels were present
they could fall on the enemy's flank or at least cause them to
split their forces. On August 16, 1634 we find the entry-"If
Captain Camock be removed from the fort at the Main, or ill
success has befallen him, or any enemy is in possession of the
place, to labour by help of the Indians to find him or his com-
pany, and get what commodities you can against the ship's
arrival. Throw these instructions and all other letters over-
board if he fall into the hands of an enemy." Captain Camock
was master of the vessel "Earl of Warwick," 80 tons, in Ber-
muda in 1628. On October 18, 1632 he is mentioned in
Winthrop's Journal. In 1636 he went home, left the com-
pany's service, and became commander of Landguard Fort,
at Harwich, the home port of the "Mayflower," and still daily
linked with the Hook of Holland.
 The colony was made up of a series of plantations of differ-
ent sizes, owned by different captains in different degrees of
indebtedness to the company, and of which perhaps the
largest plantation was that of Governor Philip Bell at Pa-
tience near Jonathan Point. This group of plantations around
the Stand and the Southern Stand had an approximate pop-
ulation of 600 Puritan seamen and colonists, 200 Moskito
Indians, and 100 African slaves. It can be taken as the model
used when they proposed to establish a plantation on the coast
of Guiana, or on the Tapayos or Tapaywasoose in the Ama-
zon, needing 1,000 men for settlement and costing ten thou-