Mgj nieuhoff's brazil. 



gathered out of the three dlftridts of St. Antonio, Pojuca, and Morlbeca, to the num- 

 ber of fix hundred, joined with the rebels in the Vergea of Moribeca. 



The 1 7th of July, the council were advertifed by Haus in a letter dated at Moribeca, 

 that having received a meffage from Mr. Ley and Mr. Heck out of St. Antonio, with 

 advice, that in Puerto de GalUnas two boats with ammunition were landed by Pedro 

 de Kunha, he had fent thither Captain John Blaar, and Enfign Hartftein, with a good 

 body of his ableft foldiers and Brazilians, he himfelf not being in a condition to follow 

 with the reft, difabled by their late marches ; for which reafon he had put them into 

 quarters of refrefhment in Moribeca, where he would exped their further orders, as 

 not judging his prefence neceflary at the Receif, now the enemies were fled before 

 him. , ^ 



Orders were thereupon difpatched to him by the council the 1 9th of July, to keep 

 his head-quarters in Moribeca, the better to keep a watchful eye over the rebels that 

 were retired hito the woods ; and to be the nearer at hand to fuccour either St. An- 

 tonio or Pojuka, for which Moribeca lay very convenient ; but if the enemy fhould be- 

 come too ftrong for him, he fhould retreat towards the Receif. Advice alfo was fent 

 him that Amador d'Araouje, Pedro Marinho Falkao, John Pais, and Kabral, were, 

 with the rebels they had gathered in St. Antontio and Pojuka, marched the day before 

 in the morning from D'Ingenio Moreno Gardo, to join their troops with thofe of John 

 Fernandes Vieira. 



The council likewife received feveral letters from John Hoek, Rudolph Baro, and 

 James Rabbi, dated the 5th, 6th, and 7th of July, concerning the prefent ftate of 

 affairs in Rio Grande, and that they being threatened with an invafion by Kamaron on 

 the fouth-fide, and by the Brazilians of Siara and Maranhaon from the north, they 

 had difarmed all the Portuguefe and laid up their arms in the forts of Keulen. They 

 had alfo, by the advice of King John Duwy, taken into cuftody a certain Portuguefe 

 called Antonio Vetallo, with his fon, being accufed by the faid King Duwy of having had 

 a hand in the murther committed upon the Dutch in Siara, and in the confpiracy of the 

 rebels. They further complained of the ill pradices of the Portuguefe, who fought 

 by all means poffible to opprefs the Dutch thereabouts ; adding withal, that King 

 Duwy was ready with his Tapoyers to fall upon the Portuguefe, as foon as he received 

 orders for that purpofe, which had made many of the Portuguefe fly out of Parayba. 



About the fame time, near one thoufand Brazilians, viz. three hundred and fixty 

 nine men, the reft women and children, being fled for ftielter into the ifle of Ita- 

 marika, where they were maintained out of the magazines, it was refolved the 21ft 

 of July by the council, to fend thither Mr. Liftry, to take effectual care to eafe the 

 company of that burthen, that they might be engaged to provide themfelves out of 

 their refpeftive Aldeas. Things were as yet quiet about that time in Itamarika, Goyana 

 and Parayba, by the good condud of Mr. Paul Vander Linge, governor of the laft. 

 For as foon as the fire of rebellion began to break out in the Vergea, Pojuka, and 

 in Olinda, the council being advertifed that they ought to keep a watchful eye over 

 thofe of Parayba, where feveral were fufpected of being confcious of the defign, they 

 fent the 13th of July Paul de Linge, one of the affeffors in the court of juftice thither, 

 with an ample commiflion, to endeavour to keep the inhabitants in obedience, ^nd to 

 aft for that purpofe, as he fhould find it moft conducive to the public fecurity. He was \ 

 no fooner arrived there, but he made it his chief care to provide the forts with fufficient 

 garrifons, ammunition, and provifions, which he took from the fhips then lying in the 

 road, behind the Red Land: he further took care to fecure all the fufpeded perfons, 



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