60 The Beginning of British Honduras
and 1773 guilders, and how provisions were made by Blew-
field that his share of the proceeds of a cruise in case of his
death should go to his wife Dorothy, or his son Anthony, re-
siding in London. In 1649 the very valuable Spanish bark
"Tabasco" was captured, but then came the Treaty of Muen-
ster in Westphalia, 1648, which ended the Thirty Years War
and the Dutch activity in Honduras waters. Nevertheless,
Blewfield took his prize to Newport, Rhode Island, where in
a letter to Roger Williams we learn that "there were great
bickerings about the ship, that Blewfield was carrying it away,
and had promised the governor to answer for it to the Span-
iards if demanded because she was taken against the treaty."
But in New Amsterdam he and the shareholders of the "La
Garza" got their prize money from the capture. "Strike for
the Prince of Orange," was his battle cry, and the name Blew-
fields Bay and Orange Point in Jamaica are only two of the
geographic names that carry on his memory.
 In 1858, G. E. Squier said Blewfields and Belize both de-
rive their names from pirate chieftains, but then he also said
the name Belize "is variously derived from a famous free-
booter who resorted here, named Wallace, (pronounced by
the Spaniards Walice or Balice) and from the French "balise,"
a beacon, and that the last derivation is probably correct,
since no doubt some signal or beacon was raised here to guide
the freebooters to the common rendezvous, after they had
eluded pursuit behind the dangerous reef, dotted with cayes."
The first derivation is historically accurate. The second der-
ivation is wrong. It cannot with truth be hung around the
neck of Belize. It can only serve to'prove that if we repeat
an untruth or copy a facile explanation long enough we
eventually learn to believe it. No old writer ever used this
beacon origin.
 In Squier's time there was at the Southeast Pass of the
Mississippi bar a large blockhouse with a lofty signal post
called the balize, or beacon, which served as a guide to the
entrance and anchorage in this former French colony. This
had a reason for existence in legitimate aid given to vessels