7^8 nieuhoff's brazil. 



to be delivered to Merkado the phyfician. That the infurredion was intended to ex- 

 tend all over Dutch Brazil, but that the inhabitants of the captainfhip of Parayba were 

 moft to be feared, as being moft indebted, and, confequently, bearing an ill-will to our 

 government. That their main defign was to furprife one of our forts, on or near the 

 fea-fide, whereby they might fecure themfelves a place to receive fuccours from the 

 Bahia ; from whence they expeded to be affifted with two men of war, and three or 

 four frigates. That he had figned this aflbciation barely out of fear of Vieira, who had 

 threatened thofe that fhould refufe with no lefs than death, and had caufed feveral to 

 be murdered upon that account." 



His confeflion agreeing in all points with what Fernando Vale had depofed before, 

 and being all that time forely afflided with the gravel, he was difpenfed with from any 

 further examination. 



The council being by this depofition of Karvalho fully convinced of the treachery of 

 Vieira and his adherents, it was refolved to attempt once more the taking of the faid 

 Vieira, if perhaps he might as yet lurk fomewhere or other near the Receif, and of his 

 fador Mor Manuel de Soufa, engaged in the fame defign ; as likewife of Antonio Be- 

 zerra and Amaro Lopez, both inhabitants of the Vergea, but in vain. Thofe who were 

 fent upon that errand bringing back no other fatisfadion, than that they were not to 

 be met with thereabouts ; and that befides that, Antonio and Manuel Kavalkanti, An- 

 tonio Bezerra, John Peflb, and Cofmo de Krafto, were the fame day retired out of the 

 Vergea to the Matta. The fame day Captain Wiltfchut was ordered to feize the public 

 notary, Cafpar Pereira, dwelling in St. Lawrence, who was fuppofed to have drawn the 

 before-mentioned aflbciation ; and it was refolved to fend a pardon to Antonio Kaval- 

 kanti and John Pais Kaeral, who having a great family at home, might thereby be pre- 

 vailed upon to quit the party of the rebels, whereby we fhould both weaken that of the 

 enemy, and get a further infight into their defigns. Antonio de Bulbous being exa- 

 mined at the fame time, ingenuoufly confefled that he had not the lead knowledge of the 

 confpiracy ; Sebaftian Karvalho being, notwithftanding his former confeflion, detained 

 prifoner upon fufpicion till the 4th of Augull, was, at his requefl, difmilfed by the great 

 council, after having given fufficient proof that he was one of the three who wrote the 

 letter concerning the intended confpiracy to the council. 



The 14th of June, orders were given to all the inhabitants of the Receif, and thofe 

 living upon the back of the river, to furround their dwelling-places with pallifadoes, 

 under forfeiture of two hundred gilders. And to render the companies the more com- 

 plete, and to expofe our men to as little danger as might be of being furprifed by the 

 enemy, all the fafeguards were commanded to be withdrawn by Mr. Haus, near the 

 Receif, and in Serinham by Captain Fallo, who was likewife ordered to remove the 

 garrifon of Huna to another place of more ftrength. The better to fupply the fcarcity 

 of provifions in the forts, which, for want thereof, might be in danger of falling into 

 the enemy's hands, orders were difpatched to the chief commanders, to feize upon 

 what quantity of farinha (or meal) they flood in need of for the ufe of their refpedive 

 garrifons among the inhabitants of the country, which they were to be paid for by the 

 commifTaries of the company. It was alfo thought neceffary, that for the greater fecu- 

 rity of Maurice's Town, the ditches of the fort Erneftus fhould be made larger, as like- 

 wife the Quinqueregular fort, which was put in execution by Haus, as Vice-admira] 

 Lichthart took care to have two fpy-fhips pofted, one betwixt the Quinqueangular fort 

 and the fort Bruin, the other beyond Baretta, to prevent any furprife on that fide at 

 low-tide J it was alfo refolved not to let any fhips or boats go out of the Receif without 



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