Note XXXI‑7 — Chapter XXXI · PANAMÁ. 1672-1800.

English opposition and high prices compelled them to go to Amsterdam and Hamburg, where they ordered six ships with 50 guns each. Darien, Enquiry, 82. Four ships only, one of which was sold before the first expedition started. Burney's Discov. South Sea, iv. 362. The 17th of July 1698 the first expedition, consisting of the three ships, the Caledonia, the St Andrew, and the Unicorn, and two tenders, carrying about 1,200 men, left the frith of Edinburgh. Id., 363. July 26, 1698, and same number of vessels. The expedition sailed from Leith. Winterbotham's Hist. U. S., iv. 124; Strain's Inter-Com., 16. In beginning of Sept. 1699, Seemann's Hist. Isth. 46. The last named is evidently wrong and contradicts himself in later quotations. Winterbotham is probably correct as to date and point of departure.