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want of neceffaries. The garrifons of thefe three forts were, contrary to their capitula- 

 tion (by virtue of which they were to be conduced to the Receif ), carried prifoners to 

 the Bahia ; but thofe that could not follow the reft, by reafon of ficknefs, or otherwife, 

 were cut to pieces by the Portuguefe. , 



Many of the foldiers belonging to thefe as well as other garrifons, and of the troops 

 under Colonel Haus, dreading the danger of the land journey to the Bahia, did take 

 fervice among the Portuguefe : but Captain Nicholas Nicholfon being fent with fixty- 

 four of thefe Dutch to prepare an ambulh for fome of our forces, took this opportunity 

 to join with us, which exafperated the enemy to that degree, that they difarmed all the 

 Dutch that had taken fervice there, and murdered them in cool blood, the like they did 

 with the Dutch inhabitants that had ftaid behind in the country. 



In the meanwhile the captainfhip of Parayba, through the good conduft of their go- 

 vernor Paul de Linge, remained in obedience, at leaft in outward appearance, till the 

 25th of Auguft 1645, when the inhabitants, having received intelligence of the defeat 

 of Colonel Haus, and the furrender of the cape of St. Auftin, and being at the fame 

 time encouraged by the fuccours of five companies, and good ftore of arms, fent to them 

 by Vidal from Pernambuko, they began alfo to take up arms, with an intention to cut 

 off the communication betwixt the garrifon in the monaftery of St. Francifco, as the in- 

 habitants of Fredericia (a place of no ftrength), and the forts near the fea-lhore ; but 

 Mr. Linge fhrewdly fufpedling their defign, did, with confent of the reft of the officers 

 there, order all the citizens with their effefts, and the before-mentioned garrifon, to 

 withdraw within thefe forts, to prevent their being furprifed by the Portuguefe, and to 

 ferve as an additional ftrength for the defence of the forts ; for which reafon alfo the 

 Brazilians inhabiting with their families in thofe parts, were commanded to intrench 

 themfelves under the cannon, which ferved for outworks to them. The enemy finding 

 themfelves by the conjunftion of thefe forces, difappointed in their defign of making 

 themfelves mafters of Parayba by force, had recourfe to their wonted artifice, not quef^ 

 tioning but they might have the fame fuccefs in purchafmg the forts of Parayba, as they 

 had had at the cape of St. Auftin. To encompafs which, they fent in September 1645, 

 one Ferdinand Rodrigo de Bulhaus, clerk of the court of juftice of Parayba, with a let- 

 ter directed to the commander-in-chief, Paul Vander Linge, offering him the fum of 

 nineteen thoufand gilders, if he would furrender the faid fort into their hands. But 

 this meffage had not the defired effeft, the meffenger being, by order from Mr. de 

 Linge taken into cuftody, and hanged the next day \ of which he fent notice to the 

 council the i6th of September. In the meanwhile, (according to Mr. de Linge*s let- 

 ter from the 6th of September) five companies more of the enemy's troops, making in 

 all about three hundred men, were arrived in Parayba, which being joined by the ableft 

 of the inhabitants, had pofted themfelves near Tibery, where they had publifhed by 

 proclamation, for every one to repair to his fugar-mill, under pain of forfeiting the 

 fame. 



The pafTage betwixt the Affagados and the quinquangular fort, where the cattle be- 

 longing to the Receif were kept at pafture, being much infefted by the enemy's parties, 

 one of which had taken good part of it, a fmall wooden fort was ordered to be ereded 

 in the moft convenient poft, for the fecurity of the meadows thereabouts. 



Some time before, viz. the 26th of July, orders were fent from the council to Servaes 

 Carpentier, to difarm the inhabitants of Goyana, who thereupon petitioned the faid 

 council to be excufed from furrendering their arms, confidering that thirty-feven Portu- 

 guefe of Kunhao, who had been difarmed, were murdered by the Tapoyers, and that 

 they were daily in fear of the fame treatment, till they were further removed from their 



borders. 



