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ed upon the floor with very fine tapeftry. Jufl: behind him flood his fecretary, and 

 fome halbardiers ; on both fides fat feveral counfellors and lawyers, their heads covered, 

 and behind them the officers of the army, all uncovered. Ine governor, as foon as 

 he faw our prifoners, gave them a fign to come nearer, which they having done ac- 

 cordingly, Mr. Broekhufen, upon his knees, fpdke to him thus: — " We fuppofe Your 

 Lordfliip not to be ignorant, that now for a whole month we have been detained in a 

 miferable prifon, without being confcious of any crime committed againfl you, unlefs 

 it were, that we have detained the letter Your Lordfhip knows of ; if, in this, we have 

 committed a fault, we beg Your Lordfhip's pardon." 



" And," replied the governor, " fuppofmg you had done fuch a thing in Holland ?" 

 Upon which, Broekhufen anfwered, " -That His Lordfhip would be pleafed to remeni- 

 ber, that it was no more than a private letter, and not diredled to His Lordfhip." The 

 governor, after having paufed for a little while, gave immediate order for their dif- 

 charge ; from that time they had liberty given them of walking abroad, but were fain 

 to carry themfelves very fwimmingly, for fear of the inhabitants, who kept a watchful 

 eye over them. 



The 7th of May, Ifaac Zweers and John Broekhufen were carried on board a yacht 

 called the St. Francis, in order to be conveyed to the Ifle of Terceu-a ; and as they 

 were the firfl Dutch prifoners that were fent to that ifland, every one looked upon it 

 no otherwife than a pretence to throw them over-board after they were come to fea. 

 Here they met with worfe treatment than before, being forced to fland to the pump 

 during the whole voyage, and yet were ready to be flarved, notwithftanding the fea- 

 men catched more fifh than they could confume. At lafl, the 28th, being arrived in 

 the road near Terceira, they faw within an hour after, a Dutch fhip coming to anchor 

 near them ; they called to the fhip till the mafler fent fome of his people aboard them^ 

 unto whom they made their complaints,; and, underftanding that the mafler was a na- 

 tive of "Niewendam, called Martin Peter Honing, they began to he a little cheerful, 

 though the Portuguefe would not allow them to go aboard the Dutch fhip. But the 

 29th, being left alone with the fleer-man, and only one boy in the veffel, they found 

 means to go in fpite of their keepers aboard Martin Peter Honing, who pro.mifed to 

 fee them delivered. The fame afternoon. Moor, the governor of this and the adjacent 

 iflands, refiding in Terceira, fent for Zweers and Broekhufen, and told them that he 

 had received a letter from the governor Antonio Telles de Sylva, in which he had de- 

 fired him to detain them prifoners in the caflle for a twelve-month ; but that he did not 

 think himfelf obliged to follow his directions, he having no other dependance but on 

 the King, who being not concerned in this war, his orders were, to fend all the pri- 

 foners brought thither to Portugal ; that they might rely upon it ; and, for their pre- 

 jent fuflenance, till a fhip fhould be ready to go, ordered them nine rix-dollars. 



The 1 3th of June, they met with a mafler of a French veffel, who offered to carry 

 them, without any reward, to Portugal, v^hich they willingly accepted of: here they 

 met with many of their fellow-prifoners, who had imagined no otherwife, but that the 

 Portuguefe had thrown them over-board. They continued here till the loth of Sep- 

 tember, when Zweers and Broekhufen embarked themfelves at Lifbon aboard a man of 

 war, called the Prince Henry, and at laft, the 4th of December, after a thoufand dan- 

 gers and miferies, which they had fuflained fince their departure from the Dutch 

 Brazil, arrived fafely in the Maefe. 



But we mufl return towards the 3R.eceif. Tlie unexpe^ed defeat of Colonel Haus 

 put all the inhabitants of the Receif under great conflernation ; but the council left 

 no flone unturned to put the place, with all the adjacent forts, in a condition to make 



a vigorous 



