Note 11 — CASE OF WILLIAM KIDD.

For the benefit of treasure-hunters, one might wish one could be precise. But while the master of the Antonio says at Sta. Catalina (Commons Journal, XIII. 27) and other sailors (ibid., 24) say in the Rio Romana, which would mean much the same, Henry Bolton (doc. no. 86) says in the Rio Higuey, which is 30 miles farther east, and Capt. Nicholas Evertse, a worthy New York skipper, says (C.J., XIII. 24) that on June 29 he saw the Quedah Merchant, on fire and burnt down almost to the water's edge, in a salt lagoon on "the Island St. Helena, nigh Hispaniola," meaning, apparently, Sta. Catalina.