Thus we have but to issue out and rush down, in a body, to the port.

I and another are to take the arms of our guard, and two others are told off in each room to do the same.

That will give us sixty armed men.

We shall make very short work of the guards at the gate leading into the port.

Then twenty of us are to run along the mole to Fort St.Nicholas, twenty to the Tower of St.
Michael, and twenty to that of St.John.There will be, at the most, but three or four men keeping watch at each fort, and thus we shall have in our possession the three forts commanding the entrance to the harbour.
There are, as you know, six galleys manned by crews from our prison there.