ABSTRACT
The ex-buccaneers were not the only source from which Wallace’s settlement on the Belize river was recruited. The territory of the Mosquito Indians, or Mosquitia as it was often called, stretched from the outskirts of Truxillo on the coast of what is now called Spanish Honduras to almost as far south as Bocas de Toro in Panama. The story of British Honduras, therefore, is interlocked with that of the Bay and of the Mosquito Shore, and so remained until the latter half of the nineteenth century. Spain realized that the British logwood settlements were daily growing in strength, and becoming more than ever inclined to demand as of right what they had once besought as a concession, while England at last was awakening to the commercial and perhaps to the political importance of these far-flung outposts of Empire.
