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the beft ; becaufe there rifes from the northern fhore of the continent, a fhelf, which 

 reaches very clofe to ;the ifland, the channel betwixt both not having above ten or twelve 

 foot water. The only harbour fit for ufe thereabouts is the fouth entrance of the river, 

 which makes Tamarika an ifland, where fhips that drew fourteen or fifteen foot water, 

 may pafs through ; there is no convenient anchorage. That end, where the river re- 

 turns into the fea, is by the Dutch called the northern entrance, and by the Portuguefe, 

 Katuamma. 



Betwixt Pomerello and the river Tamarika, a river comes from the continent, fit for 

 barges, called Marafarinha ; and half a league within the mouth of the river Tamarika, 

 another falls likewife from the continent, called Garaflbu, but is of little moment. From 

 thence to the north, are feveral other rivers near the fea-lhore, which are navivable with 

 barges, for the conveniency of the fugar-mills, of which there are feveral thereabouts. 



A league and a half further to the north of the north entrance of Tamarika, is a 

 noted point of land called by the Portuguefe Punto Pedra, furrounded with a Receif, 

 betwixt which you may pafs with barges and yachts. 



A league further to the north from this point, and three leagues to the north-weft 

 of Tamarika, is the fmall river Goyana, under 7^ 46', which difembogues in two 

 branches in the bay ; at the entrance lies a great rock, where is great ftore of fea-fowl. 

 Before it lies a great Receif, but within it are fo many fhelves that renders the paifage 

 very dangerous. 



About two leagues and a half beyond the river Goyana, to the north, is a great river, 

 called Auyay, but the entrance is fo choaked up with fands, that there is fcarce any 

 paifage for barges. This river fends forth feveral branches into the country, upon 

 one of which to the north, lies the village of Maurice, and upon the fouthern branch 

 the village Auyay. 



Among others, Porto Francifco lies in a creek three long leagues to the north of the 

 river Auyay ; and five leagues to the north-weft of the fame river, an unnavigable river 

 called Grammana, befides feveral other rivulets. 



About a league and a half to the north-weft of the river Grammana, is the Cabo 

 Blanco, or White Cape; and three leagues from thence to the north-weft, the cape of 

 Parayba, being a long point of land, with a large adjacent bay. The whole coaft 

 from Pomerello to the cape of Parayba, is covered with receifs or rocks, which, lying 

 for the moft part about half a league from the fliore, and the water between them being 

 generally very fmooth, affords an eafy paflage to barges, even in tempeftuous weather ; 

 when it is almoft impoflible for fhips to pafs without the rocks, by reafon of the vio- 

 lence of the current from the northern and the fouthern winds, which blow there con- 

 tinually. 



Three leagues within the mouth of the river Goyana is a town of the fame name, 

 where is kept the court of judicature of this captainlhip. There are five or fix fugar- 

 mills thereabouts, fituated upon the banks of the river, for the more commodious 

 tranfportation of fugar in barges to Pernambuko. This country produces likewife 

 brazil-wood, ginger, cotton, and Indian nuts ; the people called Petiguaves inhabit 

 here, though this whole traft of land, as far as Cabo Blanco, is not very populous, 

 having only a few villages, inhabited by the Brazilians. 



The ifle of Tamarika has feveral landing-places on the river fide, the chiefeft are ; 

 Os Markos and Pedreiros, where the river is narroweft ; Tapafima and Kamboa of 

 Domingos Rebeyro ; the great Makqueira and Kamboa of Conrad Pauli ; in which 

 places the enemy landed in that ifland ; the pafs near the north entrance of Topowa, 

 and the ifland Tapofoka, where with one fingle fhip you may defend the paflage from 



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