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a Vigorous defence, in cafe it fhould be attacked by the enemy ; and, that every thing 

 - might be performed with the beft order that could be, Peter Bas was conftituted com- 

 mander-in-chief in the Receif. Admiral Lichthart was to take care of the batteries 

 and artillery thereunto belonging ; Henry Moucheron was made commander in Mau- 

 rice's Town ; all their thoughts being now bent upon the defence of thefe places, which 

 before they judged out of danger. 



The (tables and out-houfes for the ufe- of the negroes, as likewife the walks and 

 gardens belonging to Count Maurice's houfe, being no fmall impediment to the fort 

 Erneftus, it being to be feared that, under favour of thefe houfes and trees, the enemy 

 might unexpectedly furprife the fort and Maurice's Town ; and the inhabitants earneftly 

 requefted- the pulling down of thofe ftables, out-houfes, and trees, and what elfe might 

 prove dangerous to the place ; orders were given to Mr. Valbergen and Major Bayert, 

 commanding in the fort Erneftus, to fee the fame put in execution, with as little da- 

 mage to the houfe as poiTibly could be. The houfes near the fort Bruin were likewife 

 ordered to be pulled down, and the horn- work belonging to it, to be levelled at the 

 < requeft of the citizens. Many negroes were alfo employed under the conduct of Ma- 

 jor Beck and the captain of the city-militia, to break down all the houfes in Maurice's 

 Town, which lay too near the retrenchments. All Portuguefe prifoners were ordered 

 to be diftributed in the fhips ; and feveral volunteers, who had committed many out- 

 rages in the country, and were detained in cuftody, were taken into fervice for three 

 months. A rumour being fpread abroad that eighteen of the enemy were come into 

 the AfFagados, a company of citizens were got in readinefs to affift them, but it proved' 

 not true. 



The fame day, the fliip called the Orange-tree, arrived near the Receif, being come 

 out of the Maefe the 21ft of May with thirty-five foldiers for recruits. The watches 

 were fo difpofed, that in Maurice's Town Mr. de Wit and Raetfield (befides the or- 

 dinary officers), and in the Receif, Mr. Aldrich and Valbergen, fiiould go the rounds. 



Balthafar Dortmund, governor of Itamarika, fent advice to the council the 17th of 

 Anguft, that Kavalkanti was with fome troops come to Iguaraku, and had fummoned: 

 the Brazilians to join with him in four days, under forfeiture of their lives. 



The 1 9th, the citizens prefented a petition, {hewing the neceffity of having the houfe • 

 of Count Maurice pulled down, as hindering theprofpeCt from the fort Erneftus, and, 

 if once poflefled by the enemy, they might from thence annoy both the fort and the 

 Receif itfelf with their cannon. But the council having ad vifed with Mr. Walbeck, 

 Admiral Tichthart, Aldrich, De Wit, Raetfield, Moucheron, and Valbergen, thought 

 fit not to agree to it for that time, being in hopes that it might be made ufeful for their 

 defence. Mr. de Wit and Hamel were commanded to go from hence to each houfe in 

 Maurice's Town, and to take an exa£t account of what negroes were able to bear arms, 

 and to furnifti them with mufkets and pikes; the fame charge was given to. Admiral 

 Lichthart and Captain Bartholomew Van Collen, for the Receif. All the fick that 

 were in a ftate of reconvalefcency in the caftle were likewife ordered to be armed for its 

 defence. 



At the fame time, an anfwer was fent to Mr. Dortmund, with orders to draw as 

 many Brazilians as poffibly he could into the ifle of Itamarika, and to provide himfelf 

 with as much cattle and meal (farinha) as he was able to get out of the adjacent places ; 

 but that if he found himfelf not in a condition to maintain the whole ifland, or the city 

 of Schoppe, he fhould retire into the fort Orange, where he might be fupplied by fea, 

 and, confequently, make a vigorous defence. Mr. Carpentier was likewife for warned 



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