Another loved the Spaniards because they had given him a stick tipped with silver.

On the whole, the new comers succeeded in making friends of the aboriginal race.

One mighty monarch, the Lewis the Great of the isthmus, who wore with pride a cap of white reeds lined with red silk and adorned with an ostrich feather, seemed well inclined to the strangers, received them hospitably in a palace built of canes and covered with palmetto royal, and regaled them with calabashes of a sort of ale brewed from Indian corn and potatoes.

Another chief set his mark to a treaty of peace and alliance with the colony.

A third consented to become a vassal of the Company, received with great delight a commission embellished with gold thread and flowered riband, and swallowed to the health of his new masters not a few bumpers of their own brandy.
Meanwhile the internal government of the colony was organised according to a plan devised by the directors at Edinburgh.