84^ nieuhoff's brazil. 



were againfl: them, but on the coaft near Portland were again overtaken by a violent 

 ftorm, in which they faw a Scotch (hip with two hundred perfons in her perifh. The 

 fleet under Mr. Van Goch came with much ado to an anchor behind a rock, where they 

 flayed till the fiercenefs of the tempeft being allayed, they profecuted their voyage. 

 But fcarce were they got through the channel, juft as they were entering the Spanifh 

 fea, but a difference arofe betwixt Mr. Van Goch and Mr. Beaumont about the flag, 

 the Zealanders (in a council of war held for that purpofe) allotting the precedency to 

 Mr. Van Goch ; whereas the Hollanders pretended the fame to belong to Mr. Beau- 

 mont ; but Mr. Van Goch perlifting notwithftanding to claim the precedency, Mr. 

 Beaumont gave a fignal to the Holland fliips to follow him, and fo bid adieu to Mr. 

 Van Goch, who after a troublefome and tedious voyage, in which he loft many of his 

 men by ficknefs, and efpecially the fcurvy, he arrived the 14th of July with his fliip 

 in the road of the Receif, being the firft of the five new lords of the council that 

 arrived in the Dutch Brazil. The 31ft of July 1646, the fliip the Bluecock, and the 

 Uliefllngen of Zealand, came likewife to an anchor there ; in the firft came Mr. Trowens, 

 and in the laft Golonel Sigifmund Schoppe. 



The 6th of Auguft the faid colonel gave an account to the members of the council 

 how, purfuant to their orders, he was advanced with four hundred and fifty men as far 

 as the fort of Olinda, to difcover the countenance of the enemy, and to take fome pri- 

 foners ; that they had made a fliew of attacking us, but after fome flight fliirmiflies re- 

 tired, and with a body of their troops marched through Bracer de St. Jago, to cut off our 

 retreat ; but our people forced them to retreat again with the lofs of feveral of their 

 men killed and wounded ; whereas we had but one wounded during the whole adlion, 

 befides Colonel Schoppe himfelf, who received a flight hurt on his leg. 



The 8 th of Auguft the Arms of Dort, and in it Mr. Beaumont, arrived before the 

 Receif; he was conduced the next day with all imaginable refped to the Receif. 



The 1 2th, late in the evening, Mr. Walter Schonenbergh, prefident of the new 

 council, and Henry Hacks, arrived in a bark from the north in the Receif, where they 

 were received by all the citizens and foldiers in arms ; they had been forced to leave 

 their fhip, called the Middleburgh, before the north entrance of Itamarika, as likewife 

 the Dolphin, laden with provifions on account of the chamber of Zealand, both which 

 were feen the 30th of July, off Olinda ; but being forced back by contrary winds, 

 the laft of thefe two did not come to an anchor near the Receif till the 1 3th of Auguft. 



The fame day a certain negro deferter coming to the Receif brought information that 

 the enemy intended to eredl a fort on the pafs of the Baretta, to prevent our excurfions 

 into the open country ; whereupon it was refolved, with unanimous confent of Mr. Scho- 

 nenbergh and the whole council, as likewife with the approbation of Colonel Schoppe 

 and Admiral Lichthart, to prevent the enemy's defign by fortifying and maintaining the 

 faid pafs, as being the only inlet we had left for the recovery of the whole Dutch 

 Brazil, all the other paffes being fo ftrongly fortified by the enemy, as not to be at- 

 tempted without great hazard. 



Accordingly the faid Colonel Schoppe marched the fame night with all the forces he 

 could bring together, ordering the boats laden with materials for the intended fortifica- 

 tions, to follow him the next tide. The colonel at his arrival having foon chafed the 

 enemy from thence, and polfefTed himfelf of the houfe of the Baretta, fent for imme- 

 diate orders to the council, to know whether he fhould continue in that poft all night ; 

 who, with the approbation of the new prefident Schonenbergh, difpatched Mr. BuUe- 

 ftraet thither immediately to take a view of it, and to make his report accordingly ; he 



returned 



