S36 . NIEUHOFF*S BRAZIL. 



March, taken into cuflody, and fent on board the Hollandia, Major Bayert being 

 ordered in the mean-time to fupply his place. This Jacob Rabbi, a native of Germany, 

 had been employed by authority of the ftates-general, His Highnefs the Prince of 

 Orange, and the company, to engage and keep the Topayers in the intereft of our 

 government ; in which commiflion he had acquitted himfelf fo well, that he brought 

 thefe Tapoyers feveral times, out of the mountains (their habitations) to our afliftance. 

 His dwelling-place was in the fort Keulen, in Rio Grande, where he had married a 

 Brazilian woman. Gafper Honyhoufe, commander of the Brazilians in Itamarika, 

 being flain in the lafl engagement in that ifland, Mr. Vincent Van Drillenberg was, at 

 their requeft, conftituted their commander by the council. 



The 1 7th of April, fome papers were delivered to the council, which had been dif- 

 perfed by the enemy, to debauch our foldiery ; in return of which, they fent abroad 

 their fummons, upbraiding each of their fubjeflis as were in the enemy's fervice, with 

 treachery, and exhorting them to return to their duty. It was alfo agreed to publifh a 

 copy of a letter delivered by the Portuguefe ambafl'ador at the Hague, to the ftates- 

 general, from the King his mafter ; with the anfwer of the ftates to the faid letter : 

 for fmce the King of Portugal in this letter did difown the war, and the proceedings of 

 Antonio Telles de Sylva, and his fending of his troops into the Dutch Brazil, they did 

 not queftion but by this means to open the eyes of the Portuguefe inhabitants, not to 

 flatter themfelves with vain hopes of afliftance from Portugal ; befides, that we were 

 in hopes thereby to fow the feeds of miftruft betwixt them and the Portuguefe com- 

 manders from the Bahia. 



The 24th of April, two Portuguefe companies, commanded by Captain Lawrence 

 Karnero and Peter Kavalkanti, confifting of about forty men each, marched from the 

 Vergea and the city of Olinda to Iguaracu. 



They were headed by Vidal and Hoogftraten in perfon, who having got intelligence 

 that Admiral Lichthart and John Nicholfon were gone to Itamarika, to get fome 

 farinha-roots. The 25th of April, as they were marching from Iguaracu, a certain 

 German furgeon, named Chriftopher Mars, who was formerly taken prifoner by them, 

 happening to ftay fomewhat behind, whilft he was flopping, was furprifed by one of 

 our parties near Tapafmo. Upon examination by Mr. Walbeck, he declared, that 

 not long ago there were nine companies of the enemy's forces quartered in the Baretta, 

 the city of Olinda, and in the mills of Bierboom and Brito ; each company confifted 

 of betwixt forty or fifty men. That there were five companies more, much of the 

 fame ftrength, pofted in the Salinas ; and Henry Dias, with two hundred mulats and 

 negroes in Gafpar Cox's houfe, but they had then no forces in the Vergea. 



That after Nicholas Nicholfon was come over to us with his troops, Martin Soares 

 Moreno had caufed two hundred and fixty Dutch, both foldiers and inhabitants, 

 (among whom vi^ere fix women and two children,) to be killed by a company of the 

 country-militia, in the woods of Tabatinga, betwixt Sibero and Deriba, in their way 

 to the Bahia, befides thofe killed by his order in other places, amounting in all to 

 three hundred. 



By this time there began to be great fcarcity of meat in the Receif, notwithftanding 

 which, the garrifons in the outworks, as well as the Brazilians in Itamarika, with their 

 wives and children, were to be fupplied from thence ; and the farinha roots being 

 either all taken up before by our own people, or elfe deftroyed by the enemy, in the 

 ifland of Itamarika : to fupply this prefling neceflity, it was refolved by the great 

 council, to fend a detachment of four hundred men in barks to St. Lawrence de Praja 



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