nieuhoff's brazil. 847 



returned the 14th againft night, and reported to the council that he had found the work 

 there very far advanced already, and the fortifications in fuch a ftate, that they would 

 foon be in a pofture of defence againft any attempts from the enemy. 



The 1 3th of Auguft Rudolph Baro, who, as we told you, was fent with fome pre- 

 fents to John Duwy, king of the Tapoyers, brought a letter from the faid king, dated 

 the I ft of July, to the council, wherein he thanked them for the prefents, and defired 

 they would be pleafed to fend him fome iron weapons, he being then in war with the 

 Pojukas, and that, after he had humbled them, he would march with all his forces 

 againft the Portuguefe. 



By this time the prefident, Walter Schonenbergh, and the other members of the new 

 great council, being arrived at the Receif, and having delivered their commifllons from 

 Their High and Mightineffes, the States-General, His Highnefs the Prince of Orange, 

 and the council of Nineteen, conftituting them joint-go vernos of the Dutch Brazil, the 

 late members of the faid council ; to wit, Henry Hamel, BuUeftraet, and Peter Bas, 

 ordered all the colleges and other perfons of note to be called together, to be prefent at 

 the inftalment of the future lords of the council. 



Accordingly all the members of the court of juftice, and of the finances, next the 

 magiftrates and commiffaries of Maurice's Town, then the minifters and church council, 

 together with the fea and land officers, the heads of the Jews, and laft of all the factors 

 and book-keepers of the company, being affembled, Mr. Walbeck told them, in the 

 name of the council, that Mr. Henry Hamel, Mr. BuUeftraet, and Peter Bas, had called 

 them together, to lay down in their prefence the reins of the government, and to fur- 

 render the fame to Mr. Schonenbergh, and the reft of the lords appointed by Their 

 High and Mightinefles, by His Highnefs the Prince of Orange, and the council of Nine- 

 teen, for the fupreme management of the government of the Dutch Brazil ; returning 

 them their hearty thanks for the fervices each in his refpe£live ftation had done to the 

 government, and for their conftant fidelity during thefe inteftine commotions, exhorting 

 them to perfevere in the fame obedience to the new council ; whereupon the new prefi- 

 dent and other members having received the congratulations, firft of the old council, 

 and then of the other colleges, they from thenceforward tranfaQ:ed every thing by their 

 own authority, though they, in all affairs of moment, took the advice of the laid mem- 

 bers of the old council, during their ftay in Brazil ; for which purpofe they defired 

 them, the 20th of Auguft, to appear every day at eight o'clock at their affembly, and 

 to affift them with their counfel for the better management of the affairs of the company. 

 The 1 9th of Auguft Mr. Trowens died late at night. 



The 3d of September was appointed for a general mufter of all the forces in garrifon 

 in the forts near the Receif. Mr. Heck and Commiffary Zweers were ordered to take 

 a review of thofe in the fort Erneftus, Wardenburgh, and Boavifta ; Mr. Beaumont 

 and Moucheron in the fort of Anthony Vaez and Maurice's Town ; Mr. Van Goch, 

 Hamel, and Aldrich, at the Receif, and of thofe belonging to the artillery ; Mr. Raets- 

 field and Crowranger, at the Baretta and adjacent quarters ; Mr. Volbergin and Com- 

 miffary Stricht, in the forts William and Frederick-Henry ; Mr. BuUeftraet and De Witt, 

 in the fort Bruin, and the land and fea fort. 



The 4th of September, a pardon being agreed upon by joint confent of the old and 

 new council, the fame was, the 6th, fent by a drummer to the enemy, with a letter to 

 the Portuguefe commanders from the Bahia, defiring them to withdraw their forces. 



The I oth of September being appointed for a review of the militia of the Receif and 

 Maurice's Town, the fame was found to confift of 700 men j they received the thanks 



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