824 nieuhoff's brazil. 



wife concerning the fleet under the command of Salvador Korrea de Saa, he refufed to 

 give any other anfwer, or to make the leaft confeffion, but that he was fent with the 

 faid fleet and forces to offer his afTiftance to appeafe the revolt arifen among us. He 

 defired alfo leave to fend a letter by a drummer to the colonels Martin Soares Moreno 

 and Andrew Vidal, about the exchanging of his perfon, and fome other Portuguefe pri- 

 foners, which was granted. 



Some of the citizens having conceived a jealoufy, as if their prefling circumflances 

 ^nd the need they flood in of prefent relief, had not been fufficiently reprefented to the 

 council of Nineteen in Holland, it was thought fit by the council to communicate the 

 contents of the two lafl letters to their fatisfaftion. 



The 1 9th of September, about noon, our whole fleet retired from the bay of Taman- 

 dare into the road of the Receif, with two men of war and two fmall veifels, taken from 

 the enemy; where I was arrived long before, having left them immediately after the 

 engagement. The fame night Servaes Carpentier, who died the day before, was in- 

 terred. The fame day the yacht called the Doe, and one of the fmall veflTels taken from 

 the enemy, and called by us the Receif, were fent a cruifmg to the cape of St. Auftin, 

 to prevent the enemy receiving any fupplies by fea thereabouts. 



The council being fenfible that the enemy made it his chiefefl endeavour to drive 

 away their cattle, and to prevent them by ftrong parties from fetching of wood and 

 £fhing, a company of fuzileers were ordered to be ere£led out of other companies, who 

 were to be commanded by Captain Renbagh, and to ferve as a conflant guard againft 

 the enemy's flying parties. The 21ft of September, the following proclamation of par- 

 idon for fuch as had taken fervice with the enemy, was publiihed, 



A Pardon publijhed. 



*' The great council of the Dutch Brazil being made fenfible, that many of their 

 fubjefts being fallen into the enemy's hands, have either for fear of being killed or 

 tranfported, and out of other confiderations, taken fervice among the enemy's troops, 

 and confidering that mod of them have been inveigled by their commanders, and 

 perhaps are in a fair way of repenting of their error, have thought fit, by thefe pre- 

 sents, to grant our pardon to all fuch as fhall return to our fervice, for all paft offences ; 

 with our promife, that they fliall receive the advantage of the fame flation they were 

 poffeffed of among us before ; and fuch as are willing to return to their native country, 

 ihall have pafTports granted them for that purpofe : from the benefit of which pardon, 

 are however excepted Dirck Hoogftraten, and the other traitors, who being com- 

 manders of forts, have treacheroufly delivered up the fame to the enemy." 



By this time the enemy had blocked up all the avenues by land, leading to the 

 Receif, in hopes to reduce us by famine, having polled both all the Portuguefe forces 

 fent to their aid from the Bahia, and the rebellious troops from the city of Olinda to 

 the Baretta, in the form of a half- moon ; and made about half a league from the fort 

 of Affagodas an entrenchment provided with fix pieces of heavy cannon, brought 

 hither from Porto Calvo ; but durfl not attack us by force, knowing we were prepared 

 for tiieir reception. 



Mr. Dortmund having by his letters reprefented to the council, the necefTity there 

 was of fending one of their members to provide for the fecurity of Itamarika, and to 

 keep the Brazilians (confifting of fifteen hundred men, women, and children), by 

 his authority in their duty againft the felicitations of Kamaron, who left no flone un- 

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