Note 248 — Chapter XXIX
Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham translation
Mollien describes Buenaventura as consisting of a dozen huts inhabited by negroes, a barrack with eleven soldiers, a battery of three guns, and the residence of the governor built of straw and bamboo, on an island called Kascakral, covered with grass, brambles, mud, serpents and toads. Travels in Colombia, 1824, p. 299.