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VOYAGES AND TRAVELS 



INTO 



BRAZIL. 



WITH 



A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF ALL THE REMARKABLE PASSAGES THAT HAPPENED DUR1N6 

 THE author's stay OF NINE YEARS IN BRAZIL ; 



Efpecially In relation to the Revolt of the Portuguefe, and the inteftine War carried on there 



frona 1640 to 1649. 



By Mr. John Nieuhofp. * 



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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. 



T is about nineteen years fince my brother, John NieuhofF, juft before his fecond 

 voyage into the Indies, prefented me with his defcription of China, and certain 

 draughts he had made during his embafly in that empire, which, being afterwards pub- 

 lifhed, were foon after tranflated into fix feveral languages. 



My brother had, before that time, not only been in Brazil, and feveral other places 

 in thofe parts, but alfo fince that time, has had the opportunity of travelling through 

 a great part of Afia, till 1671, when, returning into Holland, he brought along with 

 him all his papers, obfervations, and draughts, he had collected during his voyages ; 

 which, though much coveted by all curious perfons, yet for fome reafons bed known 

 to himfelf, he did not think fit to commit to public view. 



But, after his deceafe, confidering with myfelf that fuch ufeful colleflions ought not 

 to be buried in oblivion, I thought fit to publifh them for the public good. 



As thofe things which he relates of the revolt of the Portuguefe in Brazil, are 

 extracted verbatim out of the records kept during my brother's abode of nine years 

 in Brazil, under the government of the lords, Henry Hamel, Peter Bas, and Adrian 

 BuUeftrate, and authentic letters ; fo the truth thereof admits not of the leaft doubt 

 from unbiafTed perfons. 



The vaft countries through which my brother travelled in his life-time, as Brazil, 

 part of Perfia, Malabar, Madura, Coromandel, Amboyna, Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, 

 Java, Tagowan, and part of China, befides many iflands, could not in the leaft infed 

 him with that difeafe, fo incident to travellers, to relate fables inftead of hiftories, it 

 having been his conftant pradtice to adhere moft religioufly in all his treatifes to the 

 naked truth, without the leaft difguife. 



His laft voyage to the ifle of Madagafcar, where he was loft, I have taken partly 

 out of his own letters, partly out of the journal of Captain Reinard Claefon, which 

 he brought along with him from thence. 



* Churchill's Coll. Vol. II. 

 VOL. XIV. 4 u As 



