nieuhoff's brazil. 841 



orders, were fo reconciled with them, as to refolve to go to Rio Grande, provided they 

 might be furnifhed with convenient tranfport-fliips, provifions, and fome ammunition 

 for their defence, and fifty men of regular troops. Mr. Dortmund having again foli- 

 cited for provifions, fome were fent (fufficient for fourteen days) immediately, with fome 

 gun-povv'der, bullets, and other ammunition. 



Accordingly above one thoufand two hundred Brazilians, moft women and children, 

 whofe hufbands and fathers had been fiain in our fervice, embarked aboard the Omlandia'^ 

 and fome yachts, a pound of fait cod-filh being allowed to each for the whole voyage 

 without bread. At their arrival in Rio Grande they were fo emaciated by famine, that 

 they appeared more like dead carcafes than living bodies, and laid hold of every thing 

 they could meet with to fatisfy their greedy llomach, fo that in a little time they con- 

 fumed all the farinha that was left there. 



Mr. Linge, by his letters from the '25th of June, fent advice to the council, that there 

 appeared no enemy at that time in Parayba, but that .ten Tapoyers, valfals of king John 

 Duwy, being come into Rjp Grande, had fhewn themfelves extremely diflatisfied at the 

 murder of Jacob Rabbi, whereupon it was refolved to reconcile that king to our inte- 

 reft by the follo^ving prefents : 



Two hundred gilders in ready money. 



One thoufand ells of Ofnaburg linen-cloth. 



One hundred gallons of Spanilh wine. 



Two calks of brandy. 



Forty gallons of oil, and a barrel with powdered beef. 



The Brazilians in garrifon in the fort the Bruin, the Quinquangular, and fome other 

 forts, being diflatisfied at their being detained there for eight montlis lad: pafl, petitioned 

 the council the 1 2th of June, to be fent back into Rio Grande. 



The opinion of the two majors being afked thereupon, they advifed, that confidering 

 they did no extraordinary fervice there, they might well be fpared ; fo that it was re- 

 folved the 1 4th of June in council, to pay them their arrears, and to fend them back to 

 Parayba and Rio Grande, to inhabit their villages as before. 



In the Quinquangular fort, the company of Immanuel Barros was ordered to keep 

 guard inftead of the Brazilians, who were commanded to depart the 20th of June. 

 The I ith, 12th, 13th, and 14th of June, the enemy fhot in the night-time very fiercely 

 againft the fort de Affagados, a redoubt called Kirk, and the houfe Boavifta. 



The 1 5th of June it was propofed to the council by Admiral Lichthart, and the two 

 majors, Bayert and Pifloor, to beat up the enemy's quarters in the houfe of Immanuel 

 Kavalkanti, and in the Baretta, with the following troops : 



The company of Captain Killian Taylor, forty men. 



The company of Captain Nicholas Nicholfon, of feventy men, which were to be 

 jcnned by Captain de Niger with thirty men out of the fort Frederick, with Lieutenant 

 Mos from the fort Erneflus with ten men, and Lieutenant Katnar from the fort Prince 

 William with twenty men. 



In all two hundred men. 



About one hundred volunteers were fuppofed. to be ralfed from among the citizens, 

 under the Colonel Walbeck ; and Immanuel Baros with his negroes, confiding in fifty 

 men, thefe joined with the other two hundred, would make up a body of three hundred 

 and fifty men, to be commanded in chief by Major Piftoor, and to be conducted by fea 

 by Admiral Lichthart to their landing-place, viz. the regular troops to the fouth of the 

 Baretta, and the negroes upon the illand on the north-fide, from whence they might 

 break through the marfhes to the Affagados, and fo further to the houfe crofs the 



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