To his perils by fire, twice incurred, brave Putnam could now add that by flood, thus giving the spice of variety to his various adventures.
"As soon as all were landed," wrote the biographer who knew him best, "Putnam fortified his camp, that he might not be exposed to insult from inhabitants of the neighboring districts....

Here the party remained unmolested several days, until the storm had so much abated as to permit the convoy to take them off.

They soon joined the troops before Havana, who, having been several weeks in that unhealthy climate, had already begun to grow extremely sickly.

The opportune arrival of the Provincial reenforcement, in perfect health, contributed not a little to forward the works and hasten the reduction of that important place.

But the Provincials suffered so miserably by sickness afterward, that very few ever returned to their native land again." This is all that Colonel Putnam's contemporary, Humphreys, has to say of the most eventful episode of his hero's career, but it seems to the present writer (who has personally investigated the British and Colonial invasion of Cuba "on the spot") that the subject is worthy of more extended notice.