Captain Winter Was Likewise By His Turn Of The Vant- Guard In This Attempt, Where Also The Lieutenant-General Marched Himself; The Said Captain Winter, Through A Great Desire To Serve By Land, Having Now Exchanged His Charge At Sea With Captain Cecil For His Band Of Footmen.

Captain Powell, the Sergeant-Major, had by his turn the charge of the four companies which made the battle.

Captain Morgan, who at St. Domingo was of the vant-guard, had now by turn his charge upon the companies of the rearward. Every man, as well of one part as of another, came so willingly on to the service, as the enemy was not able to endure the fury of such hot assault.

We stayed here six weeks, and the sickness with mortality before spoken of still continued among us, though not with the same fury as at the first; and such as were touched with the said sickness, escaping death, very few or almost none could recover their strength. Yea, many of them were much decayed in their memory, insomuch that it was grown an ordinary judgment, when one was heard to speak foolishly, to say he had been sick of the /calentura/, which is the Spanish name of their burning ague; for, as I told you before, it is a very burning and pestilent ague. The original cause thereof is imputed to the evening or first night air, which they term /la serena/; wherein they say and hold very firm opinion that whoso is then abroad in the open air shall certainly be infected to the death, not being of the Indian or natural race of those country people.

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