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^id accordingly, the Brazilians exclaiming againfl: the tyranny committed upon thirty 

 'or forty of their comrades, who, by Andrew VidaPs order, were tied to palifadoes in 

 Serinham and ftrangled, which had this good efFeft, that Rio Grande for that time 

 was entirely purged of the rebellious crew, except fome few who efcaped their hands. 

 Their eftates and -cattle were afterwards difpofed for the benefit of the company, 

 and others their creditors, which furnifhed the public magazines with good flore of 

 flefh, at a very feafonable time. The Portuguefe being fenfible that we drew con- 

 fiderable fupplies of provifions from that country, endeavoured to prevent it by 

 fending feveral bodies of their troops thither, but were always forced to retire to 

 Parayba, whither they carried as much cattle along with them as they could. 



According to the depolition of Captain Nicholas Nicholfon (who came over to us 

 the 1 2th of November, as we Ihall fee anon) the four companies of Dutch quartered 

 in the Vergea were as follows : 



The company of Nicholas Nicholfon, (ixty-three men, and among- them twenty- ^ 

 three mufquets. 



The company of Alexander Buchhalt, of forty-three men, among whom thirty-fix 

 mufquets. 



The company of Captain Anthony, who was mortally wounded in a late engage- 

 ment, confiiled of thirty-fix men, and among them thirty-two mufquets. 



The company of John de Wit, of forty men, but miferable wretches, and among 

 them only twelve mufquets. 



Befides thefe they had two other Dutch companies in Goyana, one commanded by 

 George Peterfon of feventeen men, all pikes, the other by La Cour of nineteen men, 

 likewife mofl pikes. They had alfo two more in Parayba, one under the command of 

 Captain Peter Gendre of nineteen men, mofl pikes ; the fecond by Edward Verfman 

 of twenty men, among whom was but one mufqueteer. So that the whole number of 

 thefe eight companies amounted to no more than two hundred and fifty-feven men j 

 their colonel was Hoogflraten, and Francis la Tour, late alderman of Serinham, major, 

 a profeffed enemy to the Hollanders. Mofl of the Dutch prifoners were put under a 

 neceffity of taking fervice with the enemy, being otherwife in danger of being murdered 

 in their way to the Bahia, as it happened to forty- two prifoners taken at the cape of 

 St. Auflin, who were all flain in the fugar-mill Konjau, near Serinham. He further 

 declared, that the enemy's forces in the Vergea confiiled of about feven hundred men> 

 lent from the Bahia, divided into nine companies, well armed with mufquets and fire- 

 locks. That befides thefe, they had about one hundred men, gathered from among 

 the Portuguefe inhabitants, they having forced all the young men from the fouth of 

 Huma, as far as St. Lawrence, to take up arms : fome being armed with fire-locks, 

 others with mufquets they had taken from us ; they were for the mofl part mulats, 

 and an undifciplined rabble, commanded by John Fernandes Vieira as colonel, and 

 Anthony Dias, (who came from the Bahia) their major. Their captains moll in elleem 

 among them were, Simon Mendes, Domingos Fagundos, and John d'Albuquerque. 

 PCamaron commanded one hundred Brazilians armed with blunderbuffes, and Dias two 

 hundred negroes (among whom fifty were ours), provided with very good guns j 

 befides fome Tapo)'ers. Each foldier had for his daily allowance, a pound of meat, 

 and about a pint of farinha or meal, and twelve gilders per month ; a captain one hun- 

 dred and twenty gilders, an enfign forty-two, a ferjeant twenty-one, and a corporal 

 tifteen gilders per month. But they only paid the Dutch troops with ready money, 

 the account with the Portuguefe from the Bahia being made up but once a year. They 

 were at that time bufy in raifing of a fort with four fmall baflions and a powder-houfe, 



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