who have "sufficient procuration or authority to receive the same..." However, there was no one apparent to restore the island to. In the event, Johnson did nothing. Later, November 1696 a subsequent claim was made to the island by Sir Peter van Bell, the agent of Sir Joseph Shepheard, a Rotterdam merchant, who claimed to have purchased Tortola on 21 June 1695 for 3,500 guilders from Hunthum's estate. Legacy Although Hunthum's interest in the islands was only very limited, he nonetheless achieved a form of legacy in the name of modern-day Hunthum's Ghut, a channel which divides Great Mountain from Fahie Hill, and also lends its name to the region of Road Town at its base. There is also a ruin of a grand house higher up within the Ghut, accessible only by foot, and it is possible to conjecture that this was the grand house built by Hunthum to oversee his interests, although it is not clear that he ever actually stayed there. Images See also History of the British Virgin Islands Footnotes Dutch emigrants to the British Virgin Islands