NIEUHOPF S BRAZIL. y^^ 



a pafs from the great council. The major of the city militia was ordered to keep the 

 reft of his officers with the foldiery in readinefs againil the 1 7th, to pafs the review, the 

 fame day being alfo appointed to the garrifon for that purpofe ; feveral new commanders 

 were alfo chofen for the militia, inftead of thofe that were ready to return into Holland. 

 The fame day Paul Linge fet out on his journey into Parayba, being furnifhed with fifteen 

 hundred foldiers for neceffary occafions : and Bernardino Karvalho, who had abfconded 

 for fome time, had, at his requeft, leave granted him to come to the Receif to anfwer 

 for himfelf. 



The 1 5th, John Peflba, mafter of the fugar-mill Pantelio, one of thofe that were 

 ordered to be fecured, defired leave alfo, in a letter to the council, to appear' be- 

 fore them, his flight being occafioned not by his guilt, but only fear, which was 

 granted him, as well as the requefl; of Father Lawrence Alkunha, upon the fame 

 account. 



On the 1 6th, early in the morning, we received fecret intelligence, that Andrew 

 Vidal, at the head of one thoufand Portuguefe, and Kamaron with d'Indeos Rondelas, 

 and Henry Dias, with a body of armed negroes, had polled themfelves above St. 

 Anthony, near the fugar-mill Topekura. The fame day John Karnero de Maris, and 

 Francifco Dias del Gado, both mafters of fugar-mills in the diftrid: of Pojuka, ordered 

 to be apprehended, were brought prifoners to the Receif, and Amador da Rouje, and 

 Pero Marinha Falkao, inhabitants of St. Anthony, who had hitherto abfconded, did 

 afk permiflion to come to the Receif to anfwer for themfelves, which was eafily 

 granted. 



It was then taken into deliberation by the great council, whether, according to the 

 laft intelligences received of the enemy's defigns, it were not mod expedient to remove 

 our fmall camp from St. Lawrence to Moribeca, which, after fome debates, was agreed 

 upon accordingly, thereby to fecure the paiTage of the river Sangea, and confequently 

 to remain mafters of the country as far as the Cape of St.Auftin, from whence both 

 the camp and the Receif might conveniently be fupplied, both with farinha and cattle ; 

 whereas on the contrary, if the enemy jfhould be poflefled of it, he might (as had 

 been done in the former war) cut off all fupplies coming from the fouth to the 

 Receif. 



Purfuant to this refolution, orders were feht to Captain Wiltfchut to march imme- 

 diately to Moribeca, to expeft there the coming of the Brazilians, and fome further 

 fuccours : in the meanwhile, to poft himfelf in the church, and to fortify the fame 

 againft any fudden attack : and the aldermen of Maurice's Town were ordered to buy 

 up the neceffary provifions, both of farinha and cattle, about Moribeca, for their ufe. 

 A proclamation was alfo iffued, commanding all the inhabitants of Serinham, Pojuka, 

 St. Antonio, and Moribeca, without any exception, to repair well armed, both horfe 

 and foot, with all poffible fpeed to St. Antonio, there to lift themfelves for the defence 

 of the open country, under the command of Colonel Gafpar Vander Ley, and Lieu- 

 tenant-colonel John Heck : thofe that were not able to maintain themfelves at their 

 own charge, being to receive their provifion from the company, like other foldiers : 

 the faid colonel and lieutenant-colonel offering at the fame time, to furnifh fifteen 

 hundred Alqueras or meafures of farinha, for the ufe of our garrifons, for ready 

 money. 



The fame day the great council received a letter from Antonio Kavalkanti (unto 

 whom they had lately fent his pardon), in which he protefted, that neither he nor the 

 reft of the inhabitants of the Vergea were concerned in any cabals againft the ftate, 

 iheir flight being occafioned only by fear of being imprifoned upon fufpicion, raifed 



againft 



