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they were lodged, in the town of St. Jago de la Vega, 

 the capital. 



But the Protector was determined to maintain his 

 conquest, and seemed anxiously bent on peopling 

 the island. While recruits were raising in England, 

 he directed the governors of Barbadoes and the other 

 British colonies to windward, (which at that time 

 were exceedingly populous), to encourage some of 

 their planters to remove to Jamaica, on the assurance 

 of their having lands assigned them there. He des- 

 patched an agent to New England on a similar errand, 

 as well as to engage the people of the northern pror 

 vinces to furnish provisions to the newly-aequired 

 territory. He gave instructions to his son Henry 

 Cromwell, who was major general of the forces in 

 Ireland, to engage two or three thousand young per- 

 sons of both sexes from thence, to become settlers in 

 Jamaica; and he corresponded with the lord Broghill, 

 who commanded at Edinburgh, on the best means of 

 inducing as great a number to emigrate for the same 

 purpose from Scotland. 



In the mean while the old soldiers within the island 

 disliking their situation, and conceiving, from the pre- 

 parations of the government at home, that the pro- 

 tector had thoughts of confining them to Jamaica for 

 life, became dissatisfied and seditious. Other causes 

 indeed concurred to awaken among them such a spiri* 

 of discontent as approached nearly to mutiny. Having 

 at first found in the country cattle and swine in great 

 abundance, they had destroyed them with such im- 



