AD. 



1597- 



The conquest 



o/Rto 



Grande. 



Two Forts to 

 be huilded at 

 Ciihodelo. 



The countrey 

 of Parajua in 

 danger dayly 

 to be lost. 



The zvarres 

 ofPetiguar. 



A new cap- 

 tain appointed 

 in Cabodelo. 



A great con- 

 trovei'sie 

 touching the 

 government of 

 the Indian 

 tozvnes. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



spend your Majesties treasure in building his owne 

 Ingenios or sugar-milles. 



And those Captaines which your Majestie intendeth 

 to send hither must bring with them shot, powder, and 

 all kind of weapons, furniture, and munition for the 

 defence and safegarde of this countrey, and for the 

 conquest of Rio Grande. For there is no kind of 

 munition in al this countrey to be had, if occasion 

 should serve. It were also good that your Majestie 

 should send order for the building of a couple of Forts 

 or Castles at Cabodelo, for they be very needefuU for 

 the defence of the enemie, which dayly doth warre against 

 this Captaineship. For that man which shall governe this 

 countrey, if he be no more fortunate than I have bene 

 hitherto, shall not misse one time or another, but he shall 

 loose all the countrey. If Don Francisco de Sousa had 

 sent mee those two hundred and fiftie souldiers which I 

 did send for, which were in garison in the castle of 

 Arrecife, which doe nothing but spend your Majesties 

 victuals and treasure, and had not sent them to Baiha, 

 where there was no neede, these warres of Petiguar had 

 bene ended long agone, and had saved your Majesty a 

 great deale of charges which you had spent in folowing of 

 this conquest of Rio Grande. I have chosen one Cap- 

 taine John de Matas Cardoso to be Governour of 

 Cabodelo, who is a very sufficient man. 



Furthermore, it may please your Majestie to under- 

 stand, that the chiefest Friers of this Monasterie of S. 

 Antonie have complained on me to the lord Governour 

 generall, and have caused great strife and debate betweene 

 him and me touching the government and rule of these 

 Indian townes. For the Friers would command and 

 governe both the Indians and their townes as well in 

 Ecclesiasticall as Temporall causes, as touching the punish- 

 ment of the bodies of such as are offenders. But I have 

 resisted them in your Majesties name, and have alleaged, 

 that none but your Majestie must rule and governe 

 them and their countrey, and that the townes appertaine 



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