nieuhoff's brazil. 819 



fence, and two batteries ordered to be raifed on the back-fide of the dwelling-place of 

 the negroes, from whence they might command the avenues to the Receif along the 

 river fide. Several volunteers lately come from the flat country, were incorporated 

 into one company, under the command of Secretary Hamel, as captain, and Jeronymo 

 Holman their lieutenant : two advanced guards were placed, one betwixt the fort Bruin 

 and the triangular fort ; the fecond betwixt the laft and Count Maurice's plantation : 

 part of the bridge of Boavifla was broken down to hinder the enemy's paffage that 

 way ; and confidering the importance of the triangular fort, a detachment of twenty- 

 fix foldiers, out of feveral companies, was ordered to reinforce the garrifon there. 

 The fame care was taken for the fecurity of Maurice's Town, Antonio Vaez, the fort 

 Erneftus, the quiquangular fort, and all the reft. 



Major Bayert was ordered to have the remaining walls of Count Maurice's ftables 

 pulled down, becaufe they hindered the profpeft from the fort Erneftus ; and 

 Henry Vermeulen was commanded to employ thirty negroes in clearing the plantation 

 of Count Maurice and the ditches from all rubbifh j and the before-mentioned Bayert 

 ordered to remove the palifadoes from the faid gardens, and to put them round his 

 fort. The engineer Pifteor had orders given him to fet a row of palifadoes on that 

 fide of the fort of Erneftus, where it fronts the before-mentioned gardens, and to 

 extend them five rods into the river. And this fort being not fufficiently ftored with 

 heavy cannon, commiiTary Sticht was to carry thither two great pieces, then planted at 

 the bridge-foot, and inftead of them to place there two culverins ; likewife, the entrance 

 of the channel of Maurice's Town was ftopped by a double row of palifadoes. The 

 members of the council, in conjundion with thofe of the court of juftice, took another 

 view of the fuburbs of Maurice's Town, to confult whether it were beft to maintain 

 or to defert that poft, but the refolution thereof was deferred till the next day. Two 

 great cannon were planted in the quinquangular fort, to command the river fide ; 

 and in confideration that the horn- works belonging to that fort required a confiderable 

 number of men for ^helr defence, the governor of the fort was ordered to have the 

 fame levelled by his Brazilians and foldiers, and one hundred negroes ; and the woods 

 betwixt the faid fort and the AfFagados, were ordered to be cut down by the Brazilians 

 belonging to the fort, when it was alfo refolved to draw the fot tifications of Maurice's 

 Town into a narrower compafs, and to repair the walls round the Receif; fo that by 

 the indefatigable care of the council, all the fortifications, both of the Receif and the 

 other adjacent places, were put into fuch a good pofture of defence, that the enemy, 

 though very ftrong, durft not attempt any thing thereabouts for that time. Mr. Dort- 

 mund had drawn near fourteen hundred perfons into Itamarica, feven hundred of 

 which being women and children, he defired fome fupplies of provifions, but for the 

 reft, had put the ifland in a good pofture. 



Mr. Linge, by his letter, dated in Parayba, the^ 2 2d of Auguft, fent advice to the 

 council, that after notice given him of the defeat of Colonel Haus, he had judged it 

 moft convenient to remove the garrifon and inhabitants of Fredericia into the forts ; 

 that however the Portuguefe were pretty quiet as yet, notwithftanding his whole force 

 confifted not in above four hundred foldiers, one hundred inhabitants, and fifty Bra- 

 zilians, among whom were a good number of fick and maimed men ; and that the 

 Tapoyers had flain about twelve or fourteen labouring countrymen. Major Hoogftraten, 

 Ley, and Heck, had not long before given notice to the council, that they had burnt 

 all the houfes, but efpecially the magazine and church without the fort, for its better 

 defence, and that the enemy haft pofted themfelves on the hill of the cape, and on the 

 fouthern ifland. 



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