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or Tujukapa, to fetch mandlnka or farinha-roots from thence. This detachment was 

 compofed out of thefe following troops : 



Out of Captain Nicholas Nicholfon's company, nine men. 



From the Quinquangular fort, twenty-five. 



From the Aifagados, twenty-five. 



Out of the company of Captain William Lambartz, fifty. 



Volunteers from Itamarika, thirty. 



Brazilians, one hundred and fifty. 

 ' The 29th of April the council was, by letters from Itamarika, advertifed, that our 

 forces being fent abroad to fetch fome farinha, had chafed the enemy out of two or 

 three entrenchments ; but retiring into another, furrounded with a deep ditch, 

 they were there alfo, with more courage than conduct, attacked by our troops, being 

 forced to retire, with the lofs of fixteen killed and twenty-fix wounded, among whom 

 was Captain V/illiam Lambartz : the enemy had likewife not a few killed on their fide. 

 Mr. Dortmund, commander-in-chief of Itamarika, therefore defiring to be fupplied 

 with meal, his magazines being quite exhaufted, the council fent thither, the ifl of 

 May, twenty barrels with meal, two with oatmeal, two with dry peafe, befides a 

 pipe of wine and brandy, and one thoufand gilders in money, for the ufe of the 

 Brazilians. 



The 3d of May the council received advice, by a letter dated the 2d of May, from 

 Mr. Dortmund, that the enemy had carried away ten negroes, four belonging to the 

 company, the reft to one Mr. Seulin, and four other men from Itamarika ; and that 

 the Brazilians there had been fo far debauched by their intrigues, that they retired into 

 a wood, and being twice fummoned to rejoin our troops, had refufed fo to do. That 

 at laft Mr. Apprifms (minifter of the Brazihans) having been fent to reduce them to 

 their duty, either by perfuafions or threats, his arguments were fo prevailing, that 

 they returned quietly, alledging for their excufe, that they were forced to fly thither 

 for want of fubfiftance. Hereupon Dortmund defired frefh fupplies for his magazines, 

 that a perfon of authority might be fent thither, and that another company might be 

 put in place of that of Captain Vofterman, his men being ready to revolt. 



To remove all thefe obflacles, it was refolved immediately to difpatch thither Mr. 

 Bulleflraet, a member of the great council, who was to agree with certain private per- 

 fons to provide our garrifons with fifh, and to aft in every thing there as he fhould find 

 it mofl expedient for the fervice of the company. 



Accordingly, Mr. Bulleftraet fet fail the 4th of May, in the yacht the Greyhound, 

 and arrived the fame day in the afternoon in Itamarika ; where, having executed his 

 commiffion, he returned the loth of May to the Receif, and gave the following 

 account to the council : that he had taken a view of the city of Schoppe, and the fort 

 Orange, both which he had ordered to be flrengthened ; as alfo, to fortify the old 

 brick-houfe, formerly the fladthoufe, with palifadoes againfl any fudden attempt ; that 

 he having called before him all the commanders of the Brazilians, had represented to 

 them that we were in daily expectation of a powerful fuccour from Holland, exhorting 

 them to remain ftedfafl in their duty, and to keep their foldiers under the beft 

 difcipline they could ; he had alfo prefented their commander with cloth for a fuit of 

 clothes, and the reft with fome wine and money, which they very thankfully accepted : 

 he had en pajfant taken a view of the plantations of Conradt Pauli, where he had 

 found about one hundred and fixty cocoa-trees cut down by the Brazilians, being 

 forced by famine to feed upon the fruit ; the like they had done in feveral other places ; 

 that he had endeavoured to treat with feveral private perfons for a certain quantity of 



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