In the second place, I don't think that the Portuguese, with the exception of our own men, have any fight in them.

Da Costa, the lieutenant governor, openly declares that the place is indefensible, and that it is simply throwing away the lives of the men to resist.
He is very intimate, I observe, with Bareiros, the chief of the artillery.

Altogether, things look very bad.

Of course, we shall stay here as long as the place resists; but I am afraid that won't be for very long.
"I was speaking to Colonel Cox this afternoon.

He is a brave man, and with trustworthy troops would, I am sure, hold the town until the last; but, unsupported as he is, he is in the hands of these rascally Portuguese officers.