760 NIEUHOFF*S BRAZIL. 



againft them by their enemies. The anfwer of the council was to this effeQ:, " That 

 if he knew himfelf innocent, he fhould return to his mill, this being the only means to 

 recover his former reputation." 



The great council having great reafon to fufpeft, that Kamaron would endeavour to 

 bring the Brazilians under their jurifdidion over to his party, refolved, in order to 

 fecure them in their intereft, to treat with Liftry, their commander-in-chief, to per- 

 fuade them, to fend their wives and children into the Ifle of Tamarika, under pretence 

 of fecuring them againft any attempts of the enemy, to which they might in all pro- 

 bability be expofed in the open villages ; but in effed, to keep them as pledges of their 

 fidelity. 



The fame day the council received fecret intelligence from Antonio d'Olivera, that 

 the fuccours fent to the rebels from the Bahia, confifted in a confiderable number of 

 Portuguefe, under the command of the brother of Kavalkanti ; of four hundred Brazi- 

 lians, under the command of Kamaron ; three hundred Indeos Rondelas from Sertoa ; 

 and fifty negroes, under command of Henry Dias. 



On the fame 1 6th of June, Mr. Sloteniiki, enfign of the guards, was fent abroad 

 to be at the campaign, with eleven fire-locks, and twelve Brazilians, who, returning 

 the 24th of June, gave the following account to the great council : That he took his 

 way from the Receif diredlly to St. Lawrence, and from thence direftly to the village 

 of St. Michael ; where being joined by his Brazilians, he marched through St.Fran- 

 cifco to Kafurai from thence to Geyta, and fo further through the Matta to St.Sebaf- 

 tian, where all the inhabitants had left their houfes. At St.Sebaftian he- paflfed the 

 river Topikura, and coming to John Fernandes Vieira's park, met there with good 

 able horfes. The negroes told him, they had orders from their mafter to fly from 

 before the Dutch, but to furnilh the Portuguefe with what they defired. From thence 

 he marched to Antonio, and in his way thither did light upon a houfe belonging 

 likewife to John Fernandes Vieira, where he found about fifty or fixty fheep, with 

 good ftore of poultry, intended for the ufe of the fick belonging to thofe rebels, or 

 thofe come to their affiftance from the Bahia. They fore-warned him not to advance 

 too far, he being likely to meet with fome troops in the park belonging to the fathers 

 of St. Bento ; but coming thither, found both the Portuguefe and negroes fled. From 

 thence he marched to a houfe belonging, to Michael Fernandes, who above three 

 months before had been ordered by John Fernandes Vieira, to provide a fufficient quan- 

 tity of farinha for the ufe of the fuccours expected from the Bahia ; which he lately 

 had tranfported from thence to Pedro de Alkunha, where was the rendezvous of two 

 companies of the rebellious inhabitants, where the faid Michael expeded a good ftore of 

 cattle, bought by Vieira for their ufe, according to the information of a negro, 

 brought by Sloteniflii to the Receif. Near the park of Don Pedro d'Alkunha, he met 

 with the fame mulat who had ftiot Captain V^aldeck, and with two Flollanders who 

 had committed murder, and were never pardoned. John Fernandes Vieira had pro- 

 mifed to be with them againft Midfummer-day. From thence Sloteniiki marched 

 diredly to Una, and fo further to St. Luce, but met with nobody there except one 

 monk, and fo returned to the Receif. 



On the 1 7th of June it was refolved by the great council, with the confent of the 

 council of juftice, to iflue a proclamation for a general pardon, except fome few of the 

 ring-leaders of the rebellion. The proclamation was as follows : 



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