Captain, officers, and soldiers, had been living on half a pound of cheese a day.

For himself, he had received but one hundred and twenty pounds in five months, and was living at three pounds by the day.

"This my wealth will not long hold out," he observed, "but yet I will never fail of my promise to his Excellency, whatsoever I endure.

It is for her Majesty's service and for the love I bear to him." He bitterly complained of the unwillingness of the country-people to furnish vivers, waggons, and other necessaries, for the fort before Zutphen.

"Had it not been," he said, "for the travail extraordinary of myself, and patience of my brother, Yorke, that fort would have been in danger.