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Belize is the Swallow Caye, where Captain Samuel Axe with
his ship the "Swallow" came to load logwood, which the Prov-
idence people called "braziletta." They knew the difference
between Brazil and Campeche wood, but the English market
only settled on names a generation later. In 1633 twenty tons
of braziletta and 40 tons of tobacco were on their ship "Wil-
liam and Anne" when wrecked. The word Providence, as
a geographic designation, had a very elastic meaning. The
company in England did not always understand their posi-
tion, and were displeased when Captain Axe told them that
Providence was no good and Captain Rudyerd reported that
it was not worth keeping and the Spaniards valued it not.
Though British activity at the mouth of the Belize River
began in the same year the Earl of Warwick's Puritans estab-
lished the Stand, no settlement was made there until Captain
Willis came in 1640. Captain Axe preferred to stay on board
the "Swallow" at the caye opposite the river, because the log-
wood trees were not far and he lived intermittently at his
plantation at Tobacco Caye near the Stand. The documents
from the Stands never reached Warwick and Brook Houses,
but were lost on the way like many others from sister areas.
 In 1641 the island of Providence and its forts were cap-
tured from Governor Andrew Carter by a Spanish squadron
under Admiral Diaz Pimienta, and that colony came to an
end. No more merchandise came from England for trading
or barter. This cutting off of the head of the whole venture
had its natural repercussions on the colony at the Stand,
which began to fall to pieces, because of the already existing
dissensions, the low moral standards, the call from the more
profitable field of privateering against Spanish ships. Then
the Earl of Warwick allowed Providence-Mosquitia and the
Cockscomb Stands to lapse as the Huguenots had allowed
their Florida venture to lapse, and the Dutch their Forts
Orange and Nassau in the Bahamas and their Forts Orange
and Nassau on the Tapayos in the Amazon, for neither one
of these had then gone much beyond the experimental stage.