two or three more were killed, and nine or ten wounded.

"From the unfortunate delay before the castle, which surrendered
when it was summoned, the season for the spring periodical rains,
with their concomitant diseases, was now advanced: and the little
army had lost the opportunity of pushing rapidly on, out of those
horrid woods--where there are a multitude of antelopes, monkeys,
parrots, vipers, and deadly venomous serpents--by which they were
environed, to the dry, pleasant, and healthful plains, and
agreeable towns, of Grenada and Leon, near the lake, in the
province of Nicaragua; which, from it's salubrity and situation, is
justly termed, by the Spaniards, Mahomet's Paradise: and where they
might have maintained themselves, with the reinforcement which
followed them from Jamaica on the 10th of April, till a road for
carriages might have been made from Blue Fields Harbour to the
lake, and the season would have permitted farther reinforcement,
for the completion of a glorious enterprise; as the natives of the
country were ready to revolt, and only waited for a prospect of
success. But here they were shut up in the castle, as soon as they
were in possession of it. The troops and Indians were attacked with
fluxes, and intermittents, and in want of almost every necessary:
for the river was become so swoln and rapid by the rains, that the
harbour where the provisions and stores were was tedious, and
almost impracticable. Here the troops, deserted by those Indians
who had not already perished, languished in extreme misery, and
gradually mouldered away; till there was not sufficient strength
alive to attend the sick, nor even to bury the dead.

"Thus reduced, in the month of September, they were obliged to
abandon their flattering conquest, and return to the harbour: