ine; for,
numbering their men, they had lost above a hundred, beside seventy
wounded. They commanded the Spanish prisoners to cast the dead bodies of
their own men from the top of the mountain to the seaside, and to bury
them. The wounded were carried to the church, of which they made an
hospital, and where also they shut up the women.

Captain Morgan remained not long behind at St. Catherine's, after taking
the castle of Chagre, of which he had notice presently; but before he
departed, he embarked all the provisions that could be found, with much
maize, or Indian wheat, and cazave, whereof also is made bread in those
ports. He transported great store of provisions to the garrison of
Chagre, whencesoever they could be got. At a certain place they cast
into the sea all the guns belonging thereto, designing to return, and
leave that island well garrisoned, to the perpetual possession of the
pirates; but he ordered all the houses and forts to be fired, except the
castle of St. Teresa, which he judged to be the strongest and securest
wherein to fortify himself at his return from Panama.

Having completed his arrangements, he took with him all the prisoners of
the island, and then sailed for Chagre, where he arrived in eight days.
Here the joy of the whole fleet was so great, when they spied the
English colours on the castle, that they minded not their way into the
river, so that they lost four ships at the entry thereof, Captain
Morgan's being one; yet they saved all the men and goods. The ships,
too, had been preserved, if a strong northerly wind had not risen,
which cast them on the rock at the entry of the river.

Captain Morgan was brought into the castle with great acclamations of
all the pirates, both of those within, and those newly come. Having
heard the manner of the conquest, he commanded all the prisoners to
work, and repair what was necessary, especially to set up new palisades
round the forts of the castle. There were still in the river some
Spanish vessels, called chatten, serving for transportation of
merchandise up and down the river, and to go to Puerto Bello and
Nicaragua. These commonly carry two great guns of iron, and four small
ones of brass. These vessels they seized, with four little ships they
found there, and all the canoes. In the castle they left a garrison of
five hundred men, and in the ships in the river one hundred and fifty
more. This done, Captain Morgan departed for Panama at the head of