%yO NJE-UHOFF S BRAZIL. 



|)urpofe, the companies of Colonel Garfman, Captain Jurian Reisberger, Captain Ni- 

 cholas Nicholfon, and Captain John Taylor, were pitched upon before all the reft. 



In the fame month of December, a certain Portuguefe, Gafper Gonfalves, was taken 

 by the Brazilians in the ifland of Itamarika, fent on purpofe to perfuade the Brazilians, 

 that the Dutch intended to deliver them up to the Portuguefe for a certain fum of 

 money, and they to retire with their eifeds into Holland, which caufed no fmali com- 

 motion among the Brazilians, who began to give credit to the relation. And becaufe 

 Gonfalves had fpread this rumour abroad fome time before the arrival of Cafpar Hony- 

 houfe, (who the 28th of Augufl: was appointed commander-in-chief of the Brazilians of 

 Itamarika, inftead of Liftry, taken prifoner by the enemy), he was hardly put to it how 

 to remove this jealoufy from among them. Jacob Rabbi, purfuant to his letters of the 

 nth of December, was about the fame time preparing to enter eighty leagues further 

 into the country towards the Tapoyers, to folicit their affiftance : he at laft came to 

 Oyepe, fon-in-law to King Duwy, who promifed, in cafe thofe of Siara would fend 

 their troops to us, he would endeavour to raife as many of his vaffals as he could ; but 

 King Duwy excufed himfelf, under pretence that many of his troops died by ficknefs 

 in the Sartan. 



The night before the 27th of December, the enemy had, by means of a boat, faft- 

 €ned two puppets with fire- works to the Ihip called the Swan ; but being difcovered as 

 foon as it took fire, was foon quenched without doing any damage to the veffel j which 

 made the fhips to be conftantly upon their guard for the future. 



The 30th of December, two fuch puppets, found by two Xoldiers in a fmall boat near 

 the fort Bruin, were prefented to che council. This boat, which queftionlefs was fent 

 on purpofe to faften thefe puppets to fome fhip or other, being difcovered by the cen- 

 tinels, the men quitted the boat, leaving the faid puppets behind them. 



Mr. de Linge, by his letters dated the 30th of December, from the fort St. Margaret 

 in Parayba, advifed, that a certain negroe, who had deferted the enemy's quarter of 

 St. Andrew, had declared, that the enemy had built two large barks in order to tranf- 

 port three hundred men in each, in order to attack Peter Potty, commander of the 

 Brazilians, in his intrenchments. That Kamaron had been near three weeks in Parayba, 

 the enemy's troops confifting thereabouts in fixteen companies ; but that they had many 

 fick among them for want of provifions, and that they had drawn all their forces out of 

 Rio Grande. 



The 6th of January 1 646, Peter Bas, one of the members of the great council, 

 did, by order from the faid council, fet fail with the two fhips the Lichthart and the 

 Receif, and a bark, called the Blue-Boar, towards the captainfhips of Parayba and Rio 

 Grande. His inftrudions were, to confult with Mr. Linge commander-in-chief in Pa- 

 rayba, and the reft of the officers there, how to put the intrenchments and other works 

 of the Brazilians, into a pofture of defence. From thence he was to go to Rio Grande, 

 there to take an exaft account both of the real eftates and chattels of fuch Portuguefe, 

 as by reafon of their being engaged with the rebels, were forfeited to the company ; 

 he was alfo to ufe his endeavours to have thofe goods which were upon that account 

 concealed or embezzled, reftored for the benefit of the faid company. He was alfo 

 ordered to a£t in all other refpeds, but efpecially in providing for the fecurity of the 

 captainfhip and the fort, as he found it moft confiftent with our prefent intereft, and 

 to exhort the inhabitants to remain ftedfaft in their duty, and not to negled the culti- 

 vating of the grounds and breeding of cattle. 



The 1 2th of January, Peter Dunkerke arrived from Parayba, where he had been a 

 cryifijig before the Receif in the Ihip Hamel j he brought a letter from Mr. Linge, 



dated 



