Shortly after taking Jamaica, the English dealt with natives and Spanish guerrillas with savagery, and they in turn dealt with the English in much the same way.

>Each side knew the stakes. When the English search party would see the vultures circling above and find their dead mate, the mutilations would be gruesome. [**English**]Officers suffered worse fates: Captured and force-marched to the other side of the island, they’d be interrogated [**by the Spanish**] under torture (with methods learned from the masters of the Inquisition), then shipped off to the salt mines of the Main or the dungeons of Cuba, to which death was often preferable. (Once captured English soldier told the Spaniards what they wanted to hear: that the Jews of Flanders, recently allowed into England, had financed the invasion – a complete falsehood.) >The black guerrillas captured by the [**English**] whites might face a punishment similar to that dealt out to disobedient slaves on Barbados, reported by an Englishman. The “rebellious negro” was chained flat on his belly and fire was applied to his feet until he was gradually burned to ashes while still alive. Others were starved to death with a loaf of bread hanging just out of reach, and they were known to gnaw the flesh off their own shoulders before dying. __________________________________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “Morgan.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 33-34. Print. _____________________________________ **Further Reading:** [English invasion of Jamaica]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Jamaica)