CHAPTER 6.


 ATTRACTED BY LOGWOOD


 In 1765 Sir William Burnaby came to Belize from Jamaica
to organize the Bay Settlement, regulate the wood cutters'
lands, survey channels for the approach of larger vessels,
promulgate laws, and rebuild what became Fort George.
Then the waters of Port Honduras were surveyed to enable
ocean vessels to load the great quantities of mahogany then
exported from the southern area and included in the statis-
tics as coming from Belize.
 Though we find no record one of his major recommenda-
tions must have been the introduction of new grasses from
the Guinea Coast and from Para in the Amazon estuary to
feed the cattle used for the trucking of mahogany. Later,
after the Mutiny on the Bounty, the colony received her
quota of breadfruit and bougainvillea plants which throve
readily in the new surroundings. More than two centuries
before the Portuguese had brought mango and forbidden
fruit from Ceylon to Brazil from where they spread north-
ward into the Caribbean.
 It was in Burnaby's time that the Moskito Indians of the
Cockscomb Coast became absorbed in the local population,
and thus ceased to exist in the colony as a separate racial
entity. Yet there are still Moskito geographic names on the
coast. Sittee or Pearl River is derived from "sita" or "siti"
the Moskito name for the pearl oyster. Ranguana Caye means
"the anchorage" or place where the anchors were often
thrown overboard by the trading vessels, derived from "rung-
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