7^4 KIEUH0F1?*S BRAZIL, 



In the meanwhile the Tapoyers of Rio Grande, (according to Mr. Linge's letter of 

 the 19th of July,) had murdered thirty-five Portuguefe in the fugar-mills of Kunha, 

 who being of the number of thofe that had furrendered their arms, purfuant to the pro- 

 Ciamation, this caufed no fmall terror among the reft of the Portuguefe thereabouts, and 

 efpecially in Parayba, where they left their habitations ; fo that, it being to be feared 

 they would aflbciate with the rebels, under pretence of felf-defence, Mr. Linge defired 

 a reinforcement of foldiers to keep the Tapoyers in awe. The council therefore com- 

 manded Mr. Aftellen and Captaui William Lambert, with his company of foot, befides 

 twenty fuzileers, and a detachment of fifty.men out of the garrifons of Parayba and 

 Ri^ Grande, to take care of the Tapoyers, and to conduft them to the Receif; Jacob 

 Rabbi their commander was ordered to march along with them, and Rudolph Baro ap- 

 pointed to provide them quarters upon the road. 



Haus having by this time fufficiently refrefhed his troops, writ a letter, dated the firft 

 of Auguft, to the council, in which he defired iheir orders to go in queft of the rebels, 

 and to attack them before they could be reinforced with their expected fuccours ; 

 which being granted him, he attacked them in D'Ingenio of Balthazar Moreno, with fuch 

 Tuccefs, that he beat them from place to place, till on the 3d of Auguft they retired to 

 their intrenchment upon a high fteep hill, acceflible only in one place. Notwithftand- 

 ing which, he, relying upon the bravery of his foldiers, and hoping thereby to put an 

 end to the war, attacked them vigoroufly in this advantageous poft ; hut the rebels 

 being fuperior to him both in number and in the ftrength of their camp, his forces were 

 repulfed with the lofs of one hundred men (fome fay five hundred), among whom was 

 Captain Lor. After this defeat, Haus, being fenfible that the enemy expected daily a 

 frefli reinforcement from the Bahia, retired to the Receif, where he knew his troops 

 were abfolutely neceflary for the defence of the place. 



On the firft of Auguft, Gonfalvo Kabral de Kaldos was by the court of juftice con- 

 demned to death, having, at the inftigation of John Fernandes Vieira, undertaken to 

 head the rebels in the captainftiip of Goj^ana. The fame fate attended one Thomas Pais, 

 an inhabitant of Tienpio, who had endeavoured to raife fome troops for the faid John 

 Fernandes Vieira. The fame day the great council received advice out of Serinham, 

 (the letters being fent privately in the night-time in a fmall boat down the river to the 

 fea-fide,) that the rebels began to be very numerous thereabouts, that they were mafters 

 of the river, had ftaved all the boats, and plundered D'Ingenio Formofa, where they 

 carried away the negroes, and killed the beafts belonging to the Dutch, but fpared 

 thofe of the Portuguefe. The council being fenfible that nothing but force would be 

 able to reduce thefe rebels to their duty, and that they were from time to time rein- 

 forced from the Bahia, whereas the Dutch troops diminiftied daily, they refolved the 

 firft of Auguft to fend Mr. Balthafar Vander Voerde, counfellor of juftice, to Holland, 

 to reprefent to the council of Nineteen there the true ftate of the affairs of the Dutch 

 Brazil, and to folicit prompt fuccours. Accordingly the faid Mr. Vander Voerde 

 having taken his leave of the council, fet fail the next day with the reft of the fliips that 

 layjeady to fail for Holland, being inftrudted with fufficient power and credentials from 

 the council, as follows : 



Mr, Vander Voerdenfent with a Credential into Hollands 



*' Moft noble, honourable, and moft prudent Lords, 

 " Notwithftanding the rebels make not the leaft ufe of the royal authority, but cover 

 ;^heir revolt with the cloak of godly liberty, we were always of opinion that this rebel- 

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