nieuhoff's brazil. 823 



borders. The council anfwered, that the murder committed upon thefe Portuguefe had 

 been done without their knowledge, and contrary to their orders ; that in cafe they per- 

 fifted in their allegiance, they had nothing to fear from the Tapoyers, whilfl they were 

 under their protection 5 neither ought they to imagine that the difarming of them, was 

 done with an intention to leave them a prey to the Tapoyers, but for our own fecurity, 

 and to furnifh them with a plaufible excufe not to join with the rebels, whenever they 

 fhould be prompted thereunto by them. xA.t the fame time they repeated their orders 

 to Mr. Carpentier, not to defift from difarming thofe of Goyana, notwithftanding their 

 petition to the contrary, but that he Ihould be very careful, that neither the foldiers nor 

 Brazilians of Marni might be burthenfome to them. The council alfo deputed Mr. 

 Aiflelle and Captain William Lambartz, with letters to John Duwy and Karakara, the 

 firft king, and the fecond commander-in-chief of a troop of the Tapoyers, with prefents 

 to all the reft of their commanders, in order to engage them to join with us, they hav- 

 ing complained of their not having been prefented, like as John Duwy was before ; ac- 

 cordingly the faid Mr. Aftelle and Captain William Lambartz having taken their leave 

 the 28th of Auguft of the council, took fliipping for Parayba, in order to go from 

 thence to Kunhao to treat with the Tapoyers. 



The members of the court of juftice and the council of war, in conjunction with the 

 magiftrates, having reprefented to the great council the abfolute neceffity of having the 

 houfes in Maurice*s Town pulled down and laid level with the ground ; an order of 

 the faid council was publifhed the 29th of Auguft by beat of drum, enjoining the inha- 

 bitants to pull down fuch houfes, within the fpace of two days, and in cafe of failure, 

 every body to be a,t liberty to break down the fame for his ufe ; the houfe of Mr. 

 Rechteren only excepted, which was to be converted into a redoubt, for the defence of 

 the adjacent plain. The fame day John Denninger, lately lieutenant to Colonel Haus, 

 fucceeded Captain Baar, now a prifoner with the enemy, in his command j and many 

 negroes offered to ferve the company un^er a captain of their own choofing. 



The 30th of Auguft, Captain William Lambartz, with part of his forces returned to 

 the Receif from Parayba, where he gave the council an account of his negotiation : that 

 not without a great deal of trouble they at laft obtained two hundred Tapoyers from 

 their king John Duwy, who pretended that he dreaded an incurfion from one of his 

 neighbours, who in the abfence of his troops might perhaps kill him with all his family, 

 and demanded at the fame time, that all the Portuguefe might be killed in Parayba. 

 That he marching with thefe Tapoyers into the faid captalnfhip of Parayba, they adually 

 flew all the Portuguefe they met with in their way, to the number of one hundred per- 

 fons, and plundered their houfes ; and as foon as they found him prepared to appeafe 

 them, one half of them, with what negroes and other booty they had got, returned 

 home ; but continuing his march with the reft through Goyana towards the Receif, 

 the Tapoyers did no fooner underftand that they were likely to meet with fome oppofi- 

 tion by the way, but they followed the footfteps of the reft homewards, fo that he was 

 forced to retire with all fpeed to the fort of St. Margaret in Parayba, from whence he 

 returiied by fea to the Receif. Hereupon the council difpatched fome letters the 1 6th 

 of September for Rio Grande, directed to king John Duwy, Jacob Rabbi and Rudolf 

 Baro, exhorting them to join their arms with ours, for our mutual defence, and to chafe 

 the Portuguefe that were on their march thither, from thence. 



The 13th of September 1645, Jeronymo Serrao da Payva, late admiral of the Portu- 

 guefe fleet (made prifoners in the late fea-engagement in the bay of Tamandare) ap- 

 peared before the council, v/here being examined concerning the defigns of the governor 

 of the Bahia in fending a fleet, and landing his forces in the bay of Tamandare, as like- 

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