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of the faid fort, he received fo warm a falute of fmall fliot from a Portuguefe veflel 

 full of fire-locks, that he was forced to return, without being able to penetrate any 

 further up the river ; that the other bark being difcouraged thereat, durft not venture 

 to go to Seregippo, but that they thought fit to retreat back with the ihip Zealandia ; 

 he further added, that it would be very difficult to put this defign in execution, unlefs 

 they were provided with fome galiots and yachts well armed. 



Purfuant to this advice, the council ordered the yacht called the Sprew, with three 

 other barks, thither, to join with the fhip Zealandia, for the more effeftual e;xecution of 

 this defign. 



They fet fail from the Receif the 2d of September, Captain William Lambartz com- 

 modore. He returned with the faid yacht and the Zealandia, the ift of October, to 

 the Receif, where he gave the following account of his expedition to the council : 



We came, the 2 2d of September, within a half league of the fort of St. Maurice, 

 where we met with a bark, which, at the difcharge of one of our cannon, failed away 

 before us up the river. As we were in purfuit of her, we efpied another fmall vefTel, 

 in company of the bark belonging to John Hoek, both full of foldiers : we faw the 

 firfl of thefe two run afhore, and the foldiers landing, who fkirmifhed with an oppofite 

 party for the defence of the veffel : our yacht, under favour of our cannon, boarded' 

 the faid veffel, with an intention to fet it on fire ; but finding it loaden with the baggage 

 of our foldiers, fell to plundering firfl ; and foon after efpied a boat, with a white flagj, 

 making all the fail they could towards them : Major Pappenheim, late commander of 

 the fort of Rio St. Francifco, and JMr. Hoek, were in this boat, being fent by the 

 enemy to let us know, that if we fet fire to the veffel, he would cut all the prifoners, 

 with their wives and children, to pieces, fo that we defifled from it. They gave us an 

 account, that the faid fort had been forced to furrender three days before, for want of 

 wood and provifions, after a liege of twenty-fix days : that the Portuguefe, having taken 

 a ferjeant, with four foldiers of the garrifon of Seregippo, had killed the foldiers, and 

 fent the ferjeant back with a convoy of two hundred men, to fetch the garrifon of 

 Seregippo, which had not above four days provifion left, from thence. That about 

 eight days before the furrender of the fort. Colonel Haus, Captain Liftry, and Captain 

 Wiltfchut, palTed by that way, in their journey to the Bahia, whither they, purfuant 

 to their capitulation, were to be carried, with the reft of the prifoners, and from 

 thence to Portugal, and fo further to Holland, without any other lofs except their 

 baggage, being for the reft indifferently well treated. They further added, that the 

 Portuguefe, not long ago, detached two hundred men to the ifland of Melchior Alvares, 

 in hopes to cut off the retreat of our men, and to prevent their excurfions, but came 

 too late, our people being retired before. That the enemy had likewife made them- 

 felves mafters of the fort Dos Affagados, where Mr. Bulleftraet being made a prifoner, 

 was now on his way to the Bahia. Captain Lambartz hearing this account, thought it 

 his beft way to retreat towards the mouth of the river, where, having fpent two days 

 in refitting his (hips, he returned the ift of October to the Receif. 



The fame ill fuccefs attended us at Seregippo and Porto Calvo ; for the council hav* 

 ing fent a bark with provifions to their relief, the fame, contrary to her orders, came 

 to anchor before Rio St. Francifco, where being feized by the enemy, the garrifon of 

 Seregippo being thereby difappointed in their hopes, were forced to furrender, after they 

 had fpent all their provifions. After this misfortune, there was not the leaft probability 

 left of faving the garrifon of Porto Calvo, which lying deep into the country, the river 

 was not navigable thereabouts, by reafon of its narrownefs, and that the enemy was 

 raafter. of the field on both fides,^ fo that they were likewife obliged lo furrender. for 



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