Note XXXIII‑2 — Chapter XXXIII · BELIZE. 1650-1800.
Reading edition
Peniche, Belice, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da ép., i. 217-9; Pelaez, Mem. Hist. Guat., iii. 136, 140; Stout's Nic., 258. Squier, Stat. Cent. Am., 575-6, states that the name was also said to be derived 'from the French balise, a beacon.' This he is disposed to accept as correct, 'since no doubt some signal or beacon was raised here to guide the freebooters to the common rendezvous.'