nieuhoff's brazil. 767 



Brazilians and their wiv^s and children, he was above five hundred ftrong ; and that 

 unlefs they were foon fupplied with provifions from the Receif, they fhould confume 

 all the cattle thereabouts. 



The great council fent an anfvver the fame night to Lieutenant-colonel Haus, requiring 

 him to grant free pardon to all who fhould defire it, not excepting the ring-leaders 

 themfelves, thereby to weaken Amador d'Araouje and his 'party. That with what 

 forces he could fpare in Pojuka (after fufficient provifion made for the defence of the 

 garrifons, according to their own difcretion), he fhould march to the Receif, in order 

 to attack Viera, where they need not fear but to be able to fubfifl upon what the faid 

 Vieira had laid up for the ufe of the expefted fuccours of the Bahia, and the cattle 

 belonging to the rebels. 



But whilft Lieutenant-colonel Haus was employed in fecuring Pojuka againft their 

 attempts, thofe of the Vergea ftrengthened themfelves with all poflible diligence ; to 

 further which, John Fernandes Viera and Antonio Kavalkanti, who ftyled themfelves 

 the heads of this war, did not only affix their declarations round about Maurice's 

 Town, and in Iguarafu, inciting the inhabitants to rebellion, by promifmg them con- 

 fiderable fuccours from the Bahia, but their parties alfo, which they fent frequently 

 abroad, forced thofe of the open country to take up arms, killing fuch as refufed. 

 The fame was praftifed by Amador d'Araouje inPojuca ; fo that, what with provifions, 

 what with threats and force, they got together a coniiderable body in the Vergea, we 

 being not in a capacity to prevent it, becaufe what forces we had were in Pojuka. 



But judging it abfolutely for our interefl to flop as much as poffible thefe proceed- 

 ings, it was refolved to arm fome of the lufty young fellows with firelocks, which they 

 were furnifhed withal by the citizens (there being none in magazines), and to join with 

 them a detatchment of the garrifon, befides a hundred Brazilians, that were lately 

 arHved under Peter Potti. 



Purfuant to this refolution, Captain John Blaar received orders to put himfelf at the 

 head of three hundred men, with whom he was to march with all imaginable fecrecy 

 from the Receif, and by lying in ambufh near the paffes, to endeavour to intercept 

 fome of the enemy's troops, not queftioning but that out of the prifoners they fhould 

 be able to learn where Vieira was pofted with his main body, and of what ftrength 

 both he and the fuccours from Bahia was reputed to be among them. He had flrift 

 orders not to molefl any of the inhabitants who were not in arms, but to proted them 

 and their eftates, and to receive thofe who fought for mercy, and bring them into 

 the Receif. Orders were alfo fent to Lieutenant-colonel Haus to march with what 

 forces could poffibly be fpared out of the garrifons to thefouth, to the Vergea, in order 

 to join with Captain Blaar, and endeavour to attack the heads of the rebels, which, 

 if they could once put to the rout, might be a means to quench the whole fire of rebel- 

 lion, and to reftore peace to the Dutch Brazil. 



The firfl of July it was debated in council, whether all fuch perfons as were fuf- 

 pefted to have a hand in the confpiracy, ought not to be excepted in the pardon, or 

 whether it fhould be granted to all that defired it without exception. The laft was 

 refolved upon as conducing mofl to the quieting the fubjeds minds. 



The 2d in the evening, the council received advice from Captain Blaar, that he 

 was pofled at Mongioppe, with an intention to attack the enemy, wherever he met 

 them. 



The 3d he marched to Iguarafu. 



The 4th, they received letters from Lieutenant-colonel Haus, from St. Antonio, 

 importing that after having left a garrifon in Pojuka under Lieutenant Fleraming, and 



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