… at Dicky’s Cove in the year 1723, when there were but five white men of the guard, and that he was informed by the … he was on shore in October, 1724, there being then four white men to guard it, and that the trade was so … from Commenda, in the former of which places he saw but 20 white men, where they had upwards of 40 guns, but not of use. …