 The French governor Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy fled the colony on 23 September 1667.Harman arrived at the mouth of the Suriname River on 3 October 1667.The next morning he entered the river on the "Bonaventure" accompanied by the "Assurance" and "Norwich", the "Portsmouth" and "Roe" ketches under lieutenant-general Henry Willoughby and a sloop.