“Bah! you talk too much, like all Englishmen. Do you design to take this post?”
“I do. I have now more men than you. Counting the wounded, those taken prisoners at the first rush, and those in yonder house, half your force is out of the battle. You have just seventeen men.”
“You are well informed.”
“I always aim to be so. Do you surrender?”
“Give me an hour to consider?”
“I will give you five minutes.”
“Your demands are hard. What are your terms?”
“You will find them easy. You shall have permission to march out under your own colors, with your arms and personal property. We want nothing but the House of Good Hope.”
“We shall keep our colors?”