NIEUHOFF's BRAiZIL. 787 



Immediately after, Admiral Payva fet fail from the bay of Tamandare, and meeting 

 with the fleet under the command of Admiral Salvador Korrea de Saa Benavides, which 

 was latterly failed out of the port of Rio Janeiro, he returned with him into the faid 

 harbour, and on St. Lawrence's day with their joint forces failed from thence towards 

 l^e bay of Pernambuko. 



The firft news the council received of it was on the i ith of Auguft, by a mafter of 

 a fmall velTel, called John Hoen, bound for Seregippo del Rey, and by cdmmiifary 

 John Barentz, with advice that they had feen a fleet of twenty-eight or thirty (hips off 

 Una, or Rio Formofa, and that three of them had purfued them, and difcharged 

 fome of their guns upon them. Much about the fame time they received letters from 

 Major Hoogfl:raten, from the cape of St. Auflin, and the fort Vander Duflen, intimat- 

 ing that Andrew Vidal, Henry Dias, and Paul de Kunha were landed at Una, and 

 marching to Serinham, had made themfelves mafters of the place, where they had 

 given quarter to the Dutch, but cut to pieces all the Brazilians. The council here- 

 upon took immediate care to fend fome ammunition and provifions to the faid cape, 

 having already, for the better fecurity of that place, ordered Mr. Ley and Mr. Hoek, 

 two days before, to leave the fort of St. Antonio, and to retire with the garrifon to 

 the cape of St. Auflin, before they were enclofed by the enemy. That two fliips, the 

 Deventer and the Elias, which were in the harbour unlading their goods and provi- 

 fions brought along with them for the fervice of the company, were ordered to be 

 equipped immediately, in order to join with the other five Ihips that lay at anchor in 

 the road, viz. the Utrecht, the Zealandia, Ter Veer, the Zoutlandia, and the 

 Golden-Doe. The fame night advice of all that was pafl: was fent to Colonel Haus, 

 with orders to be upon his guard, and to retire with his troops to the fugar-mill belong- 

 ing to Mr. Hoek, or any other convenient place, from whence he might be able to 

 maintain a communication with the Receif. Letters were alfo difpatched to Mr. Dor- 

 mont in Itamarika, to Mr. Carpentier in Goyana, and Mr, de Linge in Parayba, to 

 advertife them of the enemy's arrival. 



To fupply the want of feamen, many labourers were prefled on board the fliips, as 

 were likewife thirty-five land-foldiers of Moucheron's company, who had fpoiled their 

 feet by their lafl: long march ; and out of the fliip Elias were a thoufand pounds of 

 gunpowder, and out of the Douchter fix hundred, fent afliore for the ufe of the 

 garrifon. 



Not long after dinner-time the enemy's fleet, confifl:ing of twenty-eight or thirty 



fhips, appeared in fight of the Receif, where they call anchor to the north of four 



of our Ihips and a yacht, which lay in that road ; fo that the next following night was 



^oent in ballafl:ing the two fliips, the Elias and Deventer, and in fitting them for the 



> The next morning with break of day, the Portuguefe admiral who carried the 



^ flag, fent Martinho de Rebeira and Balthafar de Cafl:ilho, as his deputies, aboard 



tch admiral Cornelius Lichthart, who brought four letters, viz. two from the 



of the Bahia, Antonio Telles de Sylva, the firft dated the 21ft, and the 



2 2d of July ; the third from the Portuguefe admiral, Salvador Korrea de 



s, and the fourth from Jeronymo Sarrao de Pavia, dated the i2th of 



s another letter from the before-mentioned governor, direded to John 



Anthony Kavalkanti, and the other heads of the Portuguefe rebels. 



t carried the faid deputies afliore, in order to deliver the letters 



being tranflated, were read at the meeting of the council the 



thofe of the governor from the 21ft, 2 2d, and 24th of July, 



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