58 The Beginning of British Honduras
for "ford," "cross-road," or "haulover." Xibun, Xabon, or
Jabun means a lagoon or pond-like extension of water, aqd
is found in the names "Peten-ha," and in "Ca-jabon" in Vera
Paz, where in the rainy season the many rivers have lake-
like expansions. The variations in spelling aretlike in Mexico,
Mejico, Messico. The English pronunciations are approxi-
mately Sherboon, Shoboon, and Sibun. Casinas for sapodilla,
cayman or caiman for alligator, caoba for mahogany are words
from the language of Hispaniola.
 Justo Sierra says that Willis, "like everybody then, knew
that the introduction of foreigners into the colonies was most
strictly prohibited by the Spanish Crown, and that as a con-
sequence this shelter he had selected could not be permanent
as sooner or later it would be destroyed by the power of Spain.
Therefore Willis went to the head-chief of the Moskito In-
dians and entered into a contract whereby this head-chief
ceded to him the land he had occupied, a land which perhaps
he did not even know and which certainly was never under
his sovereignty." Thus did Willis continue the friendship
with the Moskito Indians and the Puritans. These Indians
came and helped him cut his wood at six-pence a day which
was sold to the captains of vessels. Then the wood fetched
only thirty pounds per ton in England in contrast to the nine-
ty to one hundred pounds sterling it fetched a generation
later. Sierra who wrote in 1849 the articles on the origin of
Belize in No. 48 to No. 51 of "El Fenix" of Campeche did not
know that the Earl of Warwick's people had been at the
Stand, and his statement may refer to an understanding be-
tween Willis and the Providence colony made immediately
after Willis had built his fort on land they claimed. It may
refer to Captain William Jackson who visited the Bay for
the Earl of Warwick in 1643. Anyway, it is in line with his-
torical truth, and it led me to the perusal of the State Papers
on Providence.
 As a British subject he was not trespassing on Spanish land,
for he was within the Earl of Warwick's concession. In 1564
Queen Elizabeth in a Latin speech which she addresse&- to