So that their works became higher than the Fort.

Their main intent by these Faggot-works, was to have brought them just under the Fort, and then to have set it on Fire, the Walls of the Fort being for the most part of Wood.

There was also a Bo-gahah Tree growing just by the Fort: on which they planted Guns and shot right down into them.

The houses in the Fort being Thatched, they shot also Fire-Arrows among them: So that the beseiged were forced to pull off the Straw from their Houses, which proved a great inconvenience to them being a Rainy Season: so that they lay open to the weather and cold.

The Dutch finding themselves in this extremity desired quarter which was granted them at the Kings mercy.