John Bloundelle-burton 
The Hispaniola Plate 

Most of the maps of the West Indies published during the first half of the present century and anterior to that date mark distinctly the spot where the following story principally takes place. Thirty miles due north of Cape Français, on the north coast of San Domingo, is a reef entitled ‚Bajo de la Plata, or Phips’s Plate, ‚ while more modern maps simply describe it as ‚Silver Bank.‘