Most notable was Captain Bovill.

'We have seen what we have seen,' he told us, as we cast up our defences under Spanish bullets, 'and none shall wrest the secret from us.

If God wills that we perish, 'twill perish too.

The odds are something heavier than I like, and if the worst befall I trust every man to fling into the river what jewels he carries sooner than let them become spoil of war.

For if they see such preciousness they will be fired to inquiry and may haply stumble on our city.