Contrary to the opinion of Venables, the soldiers were disembarked without guides ten leagues distant from the town.

They wandered four days through the woods without provisions, and was still more intolerable in that sultry climate, without water.

The Spaniards recovered spirit, and attacked them.

The English, discouraged with the bad conduct of their officers and scarcely alive from hunger, thirst, and fatigue, were unable to resist.

An inconsiderable number of the enemy put the whole army to rout, killed six hundred of them, and chased the rest on board their vessels.
The English commanders, in order to atone as much as possible for this unprosperous attempt, bent their course to Jamaica, which was surrendered to them without a blow.