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for Fear they fliould be called to a fevere account there for the murder of feveral inha- 

 bitants, committed by them before. 



By the fame bark Mr. Linge fent advice from the 14th of March, that the enemy 

 had appeared of late in a confiderable body near the northern fort, but was retired 

 now, but whether to Rio Grande or St. Andre, he was not able to tell. They had 

 fpoiled all the farinha-root fields in the Aldeas Magarebbe, and thereabouts ; fo that 

 the Brazilians being for the future to be furniftied with provifions out of the magazines, 

 he delired a fupply of wine and oil : immediately advice thereof was fent to Dortmund 

 commander-in-chief of Itamarika, and fome ammunition, befides one thoufand gilders 

 in ready money. The fame fum was tranfmitted to Mr. Linge in Parayba, and a 

 barrel of oatmeal, a pipe of wine, a hogfliead with oil, and another filled with dry 

 peafe, befides good ftore of ammunition. He was alfo ordered to fend the Brazilians 

 back to Rio Grande for defence of that captainfhip, and to get intelligence whether the 

 enemy had direded his march thither, in order to oppofe his defign. ^ 



In the meanwhile. Admiral Lichthart (purfuant to his letter of the 21 ft of March to 

 the couficil) had embarked fome foldiers and Brazilians in Itamariki, and taking his 

 courfe to the north entrance of the river, was got up as far as to the ilie of Tapefco, 

 from whence they had brought back a great quantity of farinha-roots, for the ufe of 

 the Brazilians in Itamarika, and of the magazines there. 



The 30th of March it was refolved, with the approbation of Admiral Lichthart, to 

 fend the following (hips a cruifing before the Bahia ; the Unffingen, the Ter Veer, and 

 the yachts the Greyhound, the Heemftede, Sprew, and Bulleftraet ; and on the 6th 

 of April, the Swan, the Zouteland, the Flight, and the yacht the Lichthart, were 

 ordered to go a-cruifing before the cape of St. Auftin, and fet fail the i oth of April 

 accordingly. 



The 31ft, letters were brought to the council, dated the 25th of March, in Rio 

 Grande, intimating .that Paulo de Kunha and Kamaron were entered Kunhao with 

 eight hundred men, among whom were three hundred mufqueteers, to carry away the ' 

 cattle from thence to Parayba. 



But, according to Colonel Garfman's letters to the council, upon his arrival, which 

 was the 4th of April, the enemy were already retired out of Rio Grande, without 

 undertaking any thing againft our people, who, confifting only in four hundred foldiers 

 and three hundred Brazilians, lay encamped near the houie of John Leftan, yet they 

 carried off fome cattle. 



About the fame time they received letters from Mr. Linge, that the enemy had 

 made feveral falfe alarms near the forts, without attempting any thing. And, in effeft, 

 in June, they did not appear any more thereabouts. 



In the year 1 646, the 5th of March in the night, Jacob Rabbi was, at the inftigation 

 of Lieutenant-colonel Garfman, near Potofi, about three leagues diftant from the 

 caftle of the fame name, villainoully (hot with two bullets, as he was going home from 

 one John Miller's houfe, where he had been entertained that evening in company with 

 Colonel Garfinan. Rabbi had a confiderable time before (as he had declared to his 

 friends) fufpecled the treachery of Garfinan, and was for that reafon juft upon his 

 departure out of Rio Grande, in order to fhelter himfelf among the Tapoyers. The 

 council refented this villainy to the higheft degree, fince, confidering that this Jacob 

 Rabbi was in great efteem among the Tapoyers, and his wife a Brazilian, it was to be 

 feared, that this would exafperate both the Tapoyers and Brazilians againft us. So 

 that Garfman returning the 19th of March to the Receif, after he had given an 

 account of his expedition to the council, was, by their particular order, the 24th of 



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