'jSS nieuhoff's brazil. 



was performed by the negroes belonging to the inhabitants of Maurice's Town and the 

 Receif, under the conduft of Vice- Admiral Lichthart, who took care to have the fame 

 perfected, according to the model drawn by the engineer. 



The fame day advice was brought that John Lawrence Frances and John Dias Leyte, 

 inhabitants of Iguarafu, made it their bufmefs to incite the inhabitants to an infurrec- 

 tion. Captain Sluyter fent alfo word from Tamarika, that about eighty men, and 

 ione hundred and ten women and children, all Brazilians of the villages of St. Michael 

 and Naflau, were come into that ifland for fhelter, and that the Brazilians of Otta 

 intended to do the like. The magiftrates and chief Portuguefe of Goyana, gave the 

 council frefli aflurances of their fidelity, provided they might, in cafe of neceflity, be 

 allowed to retire into the faid ifland, which was granted, and thanks given them for 

 their loyalty. The magiftrates of Iguarafu advifed, that Vieira had caufed a declara- 

 tion to be affixed in the fugar-mills of Gonfalvo Novo de Lira, which they had ordered 

 to be torn down, and fent a copy of it to the council, afluring them, that they would 

 take all pofTible care to keep the inhabitants thereabouts under obedience, though they 

 found fome of them much inchned to revolt. 



At the fame time Fernandas Vale was examined by Mr. Vander Voerde and Mr. Bas; 

 he declared, that having received a letter from Sebaftian de Karvalho, to meet him the 

 next morning upon the hills Garapes, becaufe he had fomething to communicate to 

 him, concerning no lefs than their eftates, lives, and honour ; he, without mentioning 

 any thing of it to his wife or brother, went thither on horfeback, accompanied only 

 by a boy ; notwithftanding he happened at that time to be afflided with the gravel ; 

 there he met Sebaftian Karvalho, with one boy only, who told him, that he having 

 received a letter, with another writing, containing a projeQ: of an infurredlion to be 

 undertaken againft the government, he thought it absolutely neceifary to give notice 

 thereof to the great council ; and that he deiired him to write a letter accordingly to 

 the council ; he being pretty well verfed in the Dutch tongue. That Vale alked him, 

 whether any body befides himfelf knew of the matter ; unto which he anfwered, that 

 his brother Bernardin did ; whofe opinion was likewife to difclofe it to the council ; 

 hereupon they returning each to their refpedive homes. Vale writ a letter in Portuguefe, 

 purfuant to the inftru£tions he had received from Karvalho, for whom the faid letter 

 was left to perufe in a baker's houfe, on a public fair-day for the fale of negroes ; after 

 which he had fent the faid letter inclofed in another, to Dr. Merkado, defiring him to 

 fee the fame carefully difpatched to the great council, without mentioning the con- 

 tents thereof. 



The great council receiving frequent intelligence that the Portuguefe from the Bahia 

 intended to fend a fleet to the afliftance of the rebels, it was refolved to fend orders to 

 the four ftiips, the Amfterdam, the Blackmore, the North Holland, and Groningen, 

 then at anchor near the Red Land, in order to their return to Holland, to return forth- 

 with to the Receif, the government ftanding in great need of their afliftance, to prevent 

 the conjundion of the forces from the Bahia with the rebels. They received alfo letters 

 from Lieutenant-colonel Haus, dated at Pojuka the 26th of June, aflTuring them that 

 he had granted paflfes to above two hundred perfons that were returned to their 

 duty ; that two or three of the ring-leaders, excepted in the laft pardon, fued for the 

 fame favour, and that he had caufed one Francko Godinho, one of the chief of the 

 rebels, taken by his people, to be hanged on the gallows he had erected himfelf j that 

 Amador d' Araouje being gone from thence with a hundred and fifty men to the Vergea, 

 to join with Vieira, he expefted their orders whether he ftiould follow him, he looking 

 upon it as a feint to draw him from thence. He further told them, that with the 



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