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Modern map, oriented to north, of the location
Detail from a Spanish map circa 1700 (upside down/orientation with south at top) showing location of anchorage (indicated by upside-down anchor) at Bastimentos, north-east coast of Panama between Porto Bello and Nombre de Dios, based on a Spanish map c.1700, detail from map item G4874.P6A1 17-- .P5, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA. Isla Grande de Bastimentos (Big Island, now Isla Grande); Isla de Bastimentos Chica (Small Island) and Puerto de Bastimentos (Port Bastimentos) discovered by Christopher Columbus in November 1502 during his 4th Voyage, as recorded by his son Ferdinand, having left the harbour they named Porto Bello: Wednesday, November 9th (1502), we left Portobelo and sailed eight leagues eastward, but the next day were forced back four by a contrary wind, and so put in among some islets near the mainland where Nombre de Dios now is because all the land about and the islets were full of maize fields, the Admiral named it Puerto de Bastinentos ("Port of Provisions").(Source:The Life Of The Admiral Christopher Columbus By His Son Ferdinand, translated and annotated by Benjamin Keen , New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 1934, p.243 (Chapter 93)[1]) In 1508 the inlet/natural harbour further down the coast to the east was named w:Nombre de Dios by the Spanish conquistador and explorer w:Diego de Nicuesa (d.1511), for the same reason Columbus named Gracias a Dios. (Source: Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 2 Vols, Boston, 1942, Vol.2, p.354-5[2]). There are no "islets" around Nombre de Dios, which later became the port through which the Spanish exported their Peruvian treasure (brought by mule-train across the isthmus from the Pacific Ocean port of Panama), later replaced in that function by Porto Bello. The "Bastimentos" was later the place where the British Admiral Francis Hosier anchored his fleet during the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello in 1726, having been ordered by his government to refrain from attacking the port, which was largely undefended, but to wait for months unoccupied. Several of his letters to the government during this period are dated at "Bastimentos". Thousands of his sailors died here of tropical disease and the bottoms of his ships were eaten by shipworm. The event was felt by the British people as a national humiliation, for which they largely blamed the government.
Date circa 1700
date QS:P,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, Call Number/Physical Location: G4874.P6A1 17-- .P5. Medium: 1 map : ms., col. ; 36 x 53 cm[3]
Author Unknown Spanish cartographer. This compilation/crop made by Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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