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Chap. SIX.—B.P.J EARLY HISTORY OP MOSQUITO. 
From tliis alliance with the buccaneers may be 
dated the friendship of the Mosquito Indians with the 
English. 
In process of time, and mainly owing to the visit of 
an Indian prince (son of the then King), who made a 
stay of three years in England, about the middle of 
the seventeenth century, the cession of Mosquito to 
this country was tendered with the full consent of the 
various tribes. The protectorate only was accepted. 
From that day to this, the King and his subjects 
have acknowledged no other supremacy but that of 
England, and have always claimed its protectorate ; 
since then the King has always been crowned under 
English auspices, and no public act of his is considered 
binding (although the succession is hereditary) until 
his title be thus recognized and ratified. 
English settlements were first formed in 1730, at 
Black Iliver, Cape Gracias, and Blewfields; and eleven 
years later, civil government was established, and 
forts were built, which were garrisoned by British 
troops. 
In dune, 1760, the American treaty was signed at 
Madrid; and by the 7th Article* it would seem that 
Spain fully recognized England’s land-tenure on the 
* “ The King of Great Britain, liis heirs and successors, shall have, 
hold, and possess for ever, with full right of sovereign dominion, pro¬ 
perty, and possession, all lands, countries, islands, colonies, and do¬ 
minions whatever, situated in the West Indies, or in any part of 
America, which the said King of Great Britain, and his subjects, do at 
this present hold and possess; so that in regard thereof, or upon any 
colour or pretence whatever, nothing may or ought ever to be urged, 
nor any question or controversy moved, concerning the same, here¬ 
after.” 
