V1U MEMOIR OP COLONEL 



bomb, or other obstruction, as he after declared ; yet 

 was he commanded off by Penn. Then they of the army 

 resolved at a council of war, among other things, that 

 one regiment staying to land to the east of the city, 

 which fell by lot to Col. Butler ; the rest of the army 

 should land some miles distant at the river Hine, the 

 place where Drake landed, and force the fort which stood 

 at the mouth of it : yet they of the fleet carried the army 

 westward to Point Nizas, whence they had to march 

 above thirty miles north to the city, through a strange, 

 woody, and very hot country, where no water could be 

 found, and many of them had but two days victuals 

 delivered them from the fleet, none above three. The 

 mean while Cox, who was designed to be guide to the 

 land forces, had been sent by Penn a fishing, and was 

 not returned, nor could be heard of at the landing ; in 

 the want of him, Venables desired to have had Bounty, 

 or Femes, who also was acquainted with the Island, 

 but Penn would not part with either of them. 



So soon as they were landed, the Commissioners 

 appointed the publishing of an order against plundering, 

 and that all pillage should be brought in unto a com- 

 mon store -, but therein gave Venables liberty to pro- 

 mise the soldiers, in case the city should be taken by 

 storm, six weeks pay, or a moiety of the pillage, ex- 

 cepting arms, ammunition, and such like : or in case it 

 should be surrendered, three weeks pay, or a third of 

 the pillage. This was signed by Penn, Winslow, and 

 Butler. 



The soldiers, who were before disgusted, were by 



