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could fee not onely a great way into the Ocean, but alio the River Siberibi, which 

 hath a Stone Bridge leading to the City,and Northerly and Weflward the Way lies 

 through great Woods and Forrefls. Olinda it felf is divided into twenty feven larae 

 Streets, befides lefler Lanes and feveral Avenues, and five chief Churches, vj^. 

 Mijericordia, ISfoftra Sennora del Emparo, and fyjlra Sennora de Guadalupe, San Salvador, 

 and San Pedro, befides two others of lefler note. On the higheft Hill ftands the Je- 

 fuits Cloyfler, builcfquare and high, and furrounded with Walls, on which Seba- 

 Jiian King of Portugal, by the perfwafionof his Uncle Cardinal Henry, fpent a great 

 fum of Money, and endow'd it with annual Revenues, Anno 1571. The Capuchins 

 alfo built a (lately Cloyfler towards the Eaft. The Franciscans moreover inhabited 

 a magnificent Building, near which flood the Governors Palace. The Vprmelites 

 had alfo a [lately Edifice, whofc former luftre ftill appears by the Ruihes, where 

 now Cattel graze ; from the Hills about which maybe exactly difcern'd %c^,the 

 Promontory of St. Jugujline, and the Caftle before the Road of %ecijfa : Along the 

 Shore flood the Dominican Cloyfler, and in the upper part of the City the Minfter, 

 Confecrated to St. Bento, exceeding flrong both by Nature and An . near which 

 flood Qonceptio de nofita Sennora. The Fort Juan de Albuquerque flood on the South- 

 iide, from whence a Way leads you along the Shore to %eciffa, where hard by the 

 Potter's Houfe flood a Beacon. But fince Olinda fell into the hands of the lS(etker- 

 %nd Eajl'India Company, they built a flrong Fortrefs on the North near the Sea- 

 fide, where formerly a great Tra<je was driven with Sugar, infomuch that forty 

 Ships have been fraighted in a day therewith from Olinda, andflillas much more 

 remained in the Storc-houfes. The Sugar cannot be made without the help of 

 African Slaves, and that in great numbers ; for Angola alone provided fifteen thou- 

 fand four hundred and thirty Moors for the Sugar-Mills about Olinda 



In the Ycarsio'oi, 1602, and 1623. there was fent to furprize this City Henrick 

 Loncque, who a little before with Peter Petersen Hem took the Spanijh Plate-Fleet, 

 loLTut and brou g nt ic awav from Matanca. In the middle of- June, Anno \6zp. Loncque 

 ***• weighed Anchor from the Goerean Road, and between great Qanary and Teneriffhz 



was Engag'd (having but eight Sail) with forty Spanijh Ships, Commanded by Fre- 

 derick de Toledo, fought his way through the midfl of them, and near St. Vincent (the 

 reft of his Fleet being come up to him, which in all made up twenty feven) he 

 flay'd for a farther promis'd Supply of Ships to affift him, and the longer, becaufe 

 the Men rais'd by the TS{etkrknd WeftJndia Company were taken into the States Ser- 

 vice, to oppofc the Spanifr and Imperial Forces, who at that time had gain'd fome 

 advantage upon them : But not long after Hartogembofch being taken by the Hoi- 

 landers, the reft of thecxpefted Fleet, with the promis'd Aid, arrivM at St. Fmcenrf 

 from whence Loncque, after four Moneths flay, fet Sail with thefe additional Forces, 

 his Fleet then confifling of fifty Sail of Ships, which carry'd above feven thoufand 

 Soldiers, befides Seamen - but he* was fore'd to lie a confiderablc time under the 

 Line, being either becalm'd or beaten back by contrary Winds, infomuch that ma- 

 ny of his Men perifh'd, or were difabled with the Scurvey : At laft his Fleet being 

 come to an Anchor upon the Coafl of Pemambuco, the firfl that Landed about two 

 Leagues Northward of Olinda, was Colonel ViederikVan Waerdenberg, who by Day* 

 * break divided his Men into three Divifions, the Forlorn-Hope confifling of nine 

 hundred and thirty four Men, march'd towards Olinda along the Shore, led by Jdolf 

 Van der Elt^ . the fecond being a thoufand and forty nine, by Stein Callenfels . the 

 third, confifling of nine hundred and fixty five, was led. by Fouke Hon* /thus 

 drawn out,and marching on,they met with no refiftance till they came to the River 

 Dolce, where eight hundred Portuguefe Charg'd on them from behind a new Sconce 5 



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