HISTORY OF THE [BOOK. H. 



Esquivel continued in his office but a few years, 

 lie died in his government, and was buried at Sevilla 

 Xueva, a town which he had founded. He was pro- 

 bably succeeded by governors of a far different cha- 

 racter, who, it is to be feared, soon began to spread 

 among the wretched natives the same horrible car- 



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nage that was nc*v desolating Hispaniola. It appears 

 that Francis de Garay held the chief command in 1 523, 

 since, in that year he fitted out an expedition from this 

 island for the conquest of Panuco, a territory which 

 Cortes, unknown to Garay, had already annexed to 

 the Spanish dominion. In this expedition were em- 

 ployed nine ships and two brigan tines, and there 

 were embarked in it eight hundred and fifty Spani- 

 ards, and a considerable body of Jamaica Indians, and 

 one hundred and forty-four horses. Such a force, if 

 collected chiefly within the island, proves, that a great 

 progress had been made in its settlement and popula- 

 tion during the thirteen years that the Spaniards had 

 been in possession of it. As Esquivel had established 

 the seat of government near to the spot which had 

 been honoured by the residence of Columbus after his 

 shipwreck in 1 503, it may be presumed, that the town 

 of Sevilla Nueva was now become of some considera- 

 tion. This town, as we are informed by Herrera, 

 was founded on the site of an ancient Indian village, 

 called Maima^ and near to the port named by Co- 



1 Quasi MAMEE. There is a bay a little to the eastward, which is 

 called at this hour Mamee Bay, The ground on which Sevilla Nueva 

 was built is now chiefly the property of Mr. Heming, who has a large 

 sugar plantation thereon. It is called Seville Plantation ; and the ruin; 



