4 A Defence of the Scots 



It is evident that the Spaniards cannot pre- 

 tend a Title to that Country by Inheritance, 

 Marriage, or the Donation of Prince and Peor 

 pie ; and as to Coiiqnefl it would be ridiculous 

 to alledg it, fince the Darieris are in a£tu- 

 al poffeffion of their Liberty, and were never 

 fubdued, nor receivM any Spanifh Governor or 

 Garih'n anniongft them. Nay, they were lb 

 far from it, that Wafer, Dampier, and others 

 that have wrote of that Country, do all agree 

 that they mortally hate the Spaniardsy were in 

 War with them, and that the Spaniards had no 

 Commerce with thofe Indians^ nor command 

 over them in ail the North fide of the Ifthmus 

 a little beyond Forto Bello ^. 



Capr. Sharp in the Journal of his Expediti- 

 on, publifhed in Capt. Hackees Colleftion of 

 Voyages^ gives an account, that in 1680 he 

 hndtd 2it Golden I/land with ^30 Men, and be- 

 ing joinM bv one of the Darten Priiif es, whom 

 they caiPd Emperor^ and another to whom they 

 gave the Title of Kjng Golden-Cap, with fome 

 hundreds cf their Men, xodk SanctaMaria^ at- 

 tempted PanAma^ and made prize of feveral Spa- 

 mjh Ships ; which is the more remarkable, be- 

 caufe Capt. Sharp was aftervi^ards tried in Eng- 

 land for Robbery and Piracy on this very ac- 

 count, but acquitted becaufe of his CommifTi- 

 pn from thofe Darien Princes : which is a plain 

 Demonftration that the Government of Eng- 



land 



* V/afer i Kew Voyage and Defcription oj the Jftbmtts of America, 



