780 nieuhoff's brazil* 



many forces as pofTibly they could fpare to; his relief, confidering that the preferva- 

 tion of the whole Dutch Brazil depended on the fuccefs of this expedition ; and accord- 

 ingly two companies of foot, of Mucheron and Blaar, were ordered to march thither, 

 not queftioning but that before their arrival Haus would be joined by Captain John 

 Blaar ; and in effeft the next following day they received advice from Mr. Haus, that 

 he was ready to join with the faid Blaar. 



I'he loth of July the council gave an account, by letters to Haus, what intelligence 

 they had received concerning the poflure of affairs in St. Antonio and Pojuka, with orders 

 to fend as many firelocks and Brazilians as he could poffibly fpare to their relief, to keep 

 the paffage from St. Antonio to Pojuka and Serinham open ; without which, all com- 

 munication betwixt them and the Receif would be cut off by the enemy. Two letters 

 of John Fernandes Vieira and Antonio Kavalkanti were the fame day read in council, in 

 which they complained of the feverity of the two lafl proclamations, but were not thought 

 fit to be anfwered ; efpecially fmce Amador d'Araouje had about the fame time retired 

 from the pafs of Pinderama. 



Two days before, viz. that the council had received letters from Mr. Hoek, dated the 

 '25th of June, at Rio Grande, intimating that hitherto there had jiot happened any com- 

 motions in thofe parts ; that, however, he had- difarmed the Portuguefe, and that the 

 Tapoyers appeared to be we'll inclined to the government. Orders were fent him to cul- 

 tivate a good underflanding with the Tapoyers, for which purpofe they fent feme pre- 

 fents to John Duwy, their King, and that the council approved his difarming the Portu- 

 guefe. On the fame day Father Imanuel, Lewis Bras, Imanuel Ferdinand de Sa, Kaf- 

 par de Mendoza, Furtado, and Jeronymo de Rocha, all Portuguefe inhabitants of the 

 Dutch Brazil, delivered their petition to the council, requefhing that the time of fix 

 days, appointed by the laft proclamation for the wives and children of the revolted 

 Portuguefe to leave the country, being expired, they might be allowed to ftay in their 

 habitations at leaft: till the ways, which at that time were rendered unpaflable by the 

 overflowing of the rivers, were fomewhat mended. But confidering that the Portuguefe 

 rebels forced the inhabitants by threats and other unufual methods to take up arms 

 againfl the government, their requeft was not granted. 



The 13th of July, the council were advertifed by letters from Haus, dated the i2th, 

 that he had paffed the river Kapivaribi, and marching through the Matta to the fugar- 

 mills of Arnao d'Ollanda, had met with four hundred rebels, who at the approach of his 

 troops were fled to Moribeca, with the lofs of fome of their men, from whence they 

 might, without any oppofition, march to the Matta of Brazil, and that he was ready to 

 march diredly to St. Lawrence, where he would expe6l the further orders of the coua- 

 cil. They immediately difpatched their orders to him to purfue and rout the flying- 

 rebels with all poflible fpeed before they could make head again, which done, he fhould 

 fix his head-quarters in fuch a place where he was fure he might be fupplied with pro- 

 vifions out of the adjacent country ; their magazines being fo exhauflied, as not to be in 

 a condition to fupply his troops. Haus had already in fome meafure taken effeftuai care 

 of this point, having in the meanwhile fent a reinforcement of one hundred foot, and a 

 company of Brazilians, under the command of Captain Tallo, to Mr. Ley, governor of 

 Moribeca and St. Antonio. The council alfo ordered the governor of the Cape of 

 St. Auguftin to flrengthen the fort with pallifadoes ; and at the fame time received ad- 

 vice from Mr. Ley from St. Antonio, that the rebels under Amador d'Araouje and 

 Pedro Marinha Falkao, had pofled themfelves within fight of them, in the new fugar- 

 ipijl, but as fooji as he received the expelled fuccours, he did not queftion to chafe theia 



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