kieuhoff's brazil. 825 



turned to bring them over to his fide ; they defired Mr. Bulleftraet to take upon him 

 this province; who accordingly, the 23d of September, fet fail thither in the fhip the 

 Deventer, and returning the 29th of September to the Receif, gave the following 

 account to the council. 



He arrived about noon at the entrance of the river Maria Farinha, where being 

 informed by John Vos, mafter of a bark, that the enemy had twice attacked the city 

 of Schoppe, and continued before it ftill, he went in a fhallop with five or fix fea- 

 men to the fort Orange, but was no fooner efpi^d by the garrifon, but they de- 

 fired him not to come nearer, they being ftill fmartly engaged with the enemy upon the 

 hill, and doubtful of fuccefs : whereupon he fent two feamen, with a letter to Mr. 

 Dortmund, who being encouraged by the reward of two reals, brought an anfwer 

 from him the fame night, intimating that the enemy had been forced to retire. 



The 25th of Auguft, by break of day, he went in a fhallop to the city of Schoppe, 

 and finding that the enemy, what with the brave refiftance made by the garrifon, 

 what with fear of this fhip, had abandoned not only the city, but alfo the whole ifland, 

 he ordered the fortifications' to be forthwith repaired, and to be put into a good pofture 

 of defence. 



For the enemy perceiving that it was in vain to attack us upon the Receif, fent 

 great part of their forces, embarked in eight boats and a bark, againft Itamarika, the 

 20th of September ; where having furprifed and vigoroufly attacked our forces, pofted 

 on the hill near the city (our deferters making the firft attack), that they the third time 

 made themfelves mafters of it, forcing our troops to retreat into their entrenchments 

 of the church. 



About three days after, viz. the 23d, Mr. Bulleftraet, as we are told, arrived in 

 the fhip Deventer, to give the necelTary orders for the defence of the place ; and to 

 keep the Brazilians in awe, he brought along with him fome volunteers chofen from 

 among the citizens, the garrifon of the Receif being fo weak as not to be rendered 

 ufelefs by any further detachments ; befides that there were four hundred Brazilians 

 capable of bearing arms at Itamarika. He was charged by the great council, and the 

 members of the council of war, to watch above all things for the defence of the fort 

 Orange, which was to be maintained to the laft, if they were not able to keep the 

 whole iHand on the hill. 



Mr. Bulleftraet, after his arrival there, found it abfolutely neceflary to preferve 

 likewife the city of Schoppe, from whence the faid fort muft be fupplied with wood, its 

 fituation being fuch, as tftat fo long as we were mafters at fea, we could maintain a 

 correfpondence betwixt the faid fort and city; for which purpofe alfo, the yacht 

 called the Golden-Doe, had her ftation appointed betwixt the fort Orange and the hill, 

 to maintain the pafTage of the river between both. But to return to the fiege of the 

 city : the enemy made three vigorous attacks upon the entrenchment on the hill, but 

 was repulfed with the lofs of one hundred and fifty killed ; though a barber, who 

 after the fight deferted them, made their lofs amount to four hundred and fifty, 

 Kamaron and Hoogftraten were wounded, and we had only fifteen killed and fixteen 

 wounded. The Brazilians lately tranfported thither, from the villages of Goyana, 

 Iguaracu, and other places, behaved themfelves to a miracle upon this occafion, though 

 it muft be allowed that the arrival of Mr. Bulleftraet did not a little cool their courage, 

 which made them abandon the ifland in the night, betwixt Sunday and Monday. 



The 2d of October the great council entered upon a fecond det^ate concerning the 

 prefervation of Itamarika, they having received certain intelligence, that the enemy 

 had undertaken the laft expedition againft that ifland, upon hopes of being feconded 



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