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- 1 2 3 4 John Prebble, The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
- 1 2 3 4 Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire. Prebble, John, ISBN 1-84158-054-6