In the shed, from which all the wounded men had now been removed and which had since remained untenanted, Nuttall had concealed the necessary stores: a hundredweight of bread, a quantity of cheese, a cask of water and some few bottles of Canary, a compass, quadrant, chart, half-hour glass, log and line, a tarpaulin, some carpenter's tools, and a lantern and candles.

And in the stockade, all was likewise in readiness.

Hagthorpe, Dyke, and Ogle had agreed to join the venture, and eight others had been carefully recruited.

In Pitt's hut, which he shared with five other rebels-convict, all of whom were to join in this bid for liberty, a ladder had been constructed in secret during those nights of waiting.

With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open.