392 TlMEHRI. 



The ubiquitous Dutchmen, not content with settling 

 themselves in Guiana, resorted to Trinidad at their 

 pleasure. Their visits annoyed the Spanish authorities, 

 who seem to have found some relief to their feelings by 

 stigmatising the Dutch as ' Lutherans.' On the i6th of 

 June 1614, Don Juan Tostate, who, in the absence of 

 Sancho DE Aleuisa, governed the island, reported that 

 he had, in the previous year 'hanged several * Flemish,' 

 whom he had captured in a small vessel. One of the 

 captives had been given to DON Geronimo DE PORTU- 

 GAL. The Don stated, further, that he had persecuted* 

 and given such ill-welcome, to those that had attempted 

 to reconnoitre the place, that they had never returned. 

 But twenty days, however, before he wrote, some 

 natives had brought word that they had seen a number 

 of Carib canoes on the Southern side of the island, in 

 company with some Flemish vessels. Apparently the 

 Don was merely boasting, when he said he had freed 

 Trinidad from the unwelcome visits of the Dutch. The 

 King's Council in Spain, found it to be proved, that the 

 island was generally surrounded by the Flemish and 

 Caribs, both by sea and land : so that the inhabitants lived 

 in constant want of many things, which they could not 

 ao and fetch for fear of the enemy. The Caribs even 

 came as far as ' the City,' to rob and ill-treat the Spaniards. 

 This came of their strong alliance with the Flemish. 

 They always moved together : as they did when they 

 attacked Arrawacks : when they took many of these priso- 

 ners, and carried off their wives.* 



30. In 1615, the King of Spain appointed DON 

 Diego Palomeque de Acuna, to be Governor and 



• Parliamentary Bine Book, Veneznela, No. 3, pp, 204, 205. 



