Note XXIX‑5 — Chapter XXIX · CORSAIRS IN THE SOUTH SEA. 1671-1682.
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Andrés was styled the 'emperor of Darien,' the magnate to whose service the freebooters now claimed to belong. These chieftains at one time ruled a large tract about the gulf of Darien; but had been straitened in their boundaries by the Spaniards, with whom they waged continual war. Sharp's Voyage, 2.