Cheap. VII; <UL M E %_l C A> 



but Waerdenberg wading up to the Middle through the River v^ith two Field-Pieces, 

 the Enemy left his Works and ran into the Wood j the Forlorn-Hope approach- 

 ing the City, march'd up towards the right fide, up a Way through the Woods, 

 Scal'd the Walls, near which the Jefuits Cloyfter flood, over which he gdt after fome 

 refiftance. The fecond Party march'd in a narrow Path along the Shore, arid 

 broke into the City between the Francifcans and Jefuits Cloyfter, towards the Cathe. 

 dri\ Salvador, from whence they difcharg'd feveral Guns, as alfo from the Caftle, 

 which they had taken, whileft Fouke Honx Storm'd the Battlements towards the 

 South 5 but Stein Qallenfels and Effacing already Mafters of Olinda, the Defendants 

 furrendrcd all. Mean while the Colonel's Skiff brought five hundred Men more 

 afliore, with which he march'd Without any hindcrancc into the City, where the 

 Conquerors, faint with excefEve Heat and want of Water, found but little Booty, 

 bccaufe the Inhabitants having notice of the Hollanders coming, had convcy'd all 

 their Goods and Wealth to Vfjciffa, which the Governor Matthias Albuquerque (Bro- 

 ther to the Lord Vuarte Albuquerque, to whom Temambuco properly belonged) burnt 

 with all theStore*houfes,partly out of revenge tojthe Inhabitants, who fled contrary 

 to his Commands^and partly becaufe he would not enrich the Hollanders. The Tor- 

 tuguefe Captain, Correa de Caflel Blanco, in his Letter to the King of Spain, values 

 the lofs at twenty hundred thoufand Ducats. But ftill the Vortuguefe had poiTeffion 

 of feveral Forts about theCountrey, whereof the moft confiderable was St. George, 

 whither Stein Qallenfels march'd in the Night with fix hundred Men, but his Lad- 

 ders being too fliort,and the Hand-Granado's not eafily taking fire, he wasfor'd to 

 Retreat . whereupon judging it moft convenient to befiege the Caftle, he digg'd 

 Trenches about the fame > nor was it long ere the Befieged defiYd Quarter, which 

 being granted, they march'd from thence with ninety Men. The Water Caftle fur- 

 rendring in like manner, they found fifteen Brafs Guns therein . and in that of 

 St. George four thoufand pound of Gun-powder, and twenty four Iron Guns. 



When the 2{etherland Forces Landed on fernambuco, the Tortuguefe inhabited 

 eleven Towns, the chiefeft whereof being Olinda, was generally Garrifpn'd by four 

 Companies of Armed Citizens, each containing a hundred Men and three Com- 

 panies of Soldiers : Amongft the Citizens were two hundred Merchants, fome 

 of whom were judg'd to be worth fifty thoufand Crufados. 



Southward from Olinda, between the River Siberibe and the Ocean, was a nar- 

 row Cawfey, at the end of which lay the populous Village fycijfa, where the Ships 

 lade and unlade. About the middle of the Cliff, being a League long, is the An. 

 choring place for great Ships, call'd <Pozp. At the end of the fore^mention'd Caw- 

 fey againft ( Po^p, appear'd a round Tower of Fre-ftone. 



The Journal.kept by the Englift? Fleet that came hither under the Command of 

 Captain James Lane after, Anno ijoj. makes mention of a Fort which lay at the 

 Mouth of the Haven before fycitfa, which the Englijh valiantly Storm'd, notwith- 

 standing fix hundred Men and feven Brafs Guns might eafily have made it invinci- 

 ble : But they conquering the fame, march'd up to Olinda, took the Suburb, con- 

 fiding or a hundred Houfes, without any refiftance, as alfo a great Booty, and the 

 greater, becaufe the Goods of a rich Carak which had fome few days before fuffcr'd 

 Shipwrack, were kept there ; they alfo took fifteen laden Ships, and for thirty days 

 kept the whole Countrey about Olinda reftlefs with continual Alarms. Since this 

 Invafion the Tortuguefe built a third Fort on %eciffa, fo that the Ships muft pafs in 

 in between two Forts, where the Channel is alfo full of Rocks, and confequently 

 the more dangerous. 



From ^ecifa the Goods are fent in Barques or Lighters to Olinda, between which 



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Olini* taken 

 by ihe Hoi- 

 Undtrs. 





The Fort St. 

 Gtorgt taken. 



^The memo- 

 rable fcx- 

 ploit* of the 

 Engtijh under 

 Captain 

 &anut Jjm- 

 <*frtr. 







