Chap. VII. *A M E%^IC A. yI <> 



This flight of the Tortuguefe encouraging <Peter Hein, he went with fourteen Boats, 

 each Mann'd with two hundred Arm'd Men upon the very Mouths of the Can- 

 nons to the fore-mention'd Battlement and took the fame, notwithstanding the 

 Stone Wall rofe eight Foot out of the Water, and above a hundred Tortuguefe de- 

 fended it, whileft the Admiral Willekens fent twelve hundred Soldiers, and two hun- 

 dred and forty Seamen afhore.with Field-Pieces. The Forlorn. Hope confifted of 

 fixty Mufquetteers, led by Captain Helmond, who was feconded by Lieutenant U 

 Main, all the Seamen following with Spades and Pick-axes . the Rcferve was 

 brought up by Captain j^/, Ifenach, and William Scbouten . thus' drawn out, they 

 were led toward; the City by the Guides Dirk Colver and Dirkde Suiter, along a nar- 

 row Way, which the Tortuguefe might have guarded with a few Men, had they not 

 been all ftruck with a panriick fear, and making ufe of the dark Night, fled into 

 the Woods. The Dutch found in the City an incredible Booty, becaufc the Gover- - 

 nor Diego Mendo^a de Furtado had forbid the carrying away of any Goods, that fo 4**f *• 

 the Citizens might be the cafier perfwaded to defend the City . which they might ° 

 well have done, had they not been furpris'd with the fuddennefs of the A&ion . for 

 when Willekens Anchor'd here, there were above fixteen hundred Soldiers, befides a 

 confiderable number of Arm'd Citizens in St. Salvador • befides, in the Forts about 

 the City on the Walls lay twenty three Brafs, and twenty fix Iron Guns. 



This Victory was fcarce obtain'd, when Colonel Dorth, who had loft the Fleet 

 at Point Vincent, arrivM here after all was done, and caus'd Edicts to be publifh'd, in 

 which the fled Citizens were promis'd greater Priviledges under the J{etherlanders 

 Protection, than ever they had under the King of Spain. Whereupon a few Tortu* 

 guefe return'd to the City . but the greateft part of them, and thofe the mod confi. 

 derable, were partly kept back by Command of the Bifliop Teixera, who laid the 

 fault concerning the lofs of the City on the Governor Furtado, and partly becaufe 

 they judg'd the Netherlander s unable to defend them againft the Spanijh Power. 



About the fame time feveral rich laden Veffels arriv'd there from Lisbon, Janeiro, 

 Spirito Santo, Angola and other Places, all ignorant of the Conqueft of St. Salvador. 



Whileft Dorth an,d Willekens were ordering all things'within the City, the out. 

 ftaying fortuguefe at iaft taking courage, Storm'd the City from Midnight till the 

 next day in the Afternoon, but fearing they flionld be fet upon behind unawares, 

 Retreated . after which Dorth thinking he had been free from all fear of Enemies, 

 and with a fmall Guard riding out of the City to take a view of the adjacent Coun- 

 trey, was fcarce got a Bowe-fhot from the Walls, when a great Body of Srafdians cu Dmh 

 rufli'd forth unexpectedly from an Ambufcade, and wounded him fo mortally, that fl&£ 

 he fell dead from his Horfe, and had his Head fuddenly chopt off, and his Body 

 mangled very terribly. 



Mart Scbouten being chofen Governor in Dorth* % ftead, took no care to fortific the 

 City • and after his Deceafe his Brother William Scbouten fucceeding him, regarded it 

 lefs, fo that all things went to ruine, every one driving onely to enrich thcmfelves. 

 Amongft other Booties, they took the rich laden Vcflel which Francifco de Sarmiento, 

 Governor of Q)ili, brought to St. Salvador, with fifty eight thoufand Guilders, and a 

 much greater fum of Gold and Pearls, all which was imbezled away. 



This City St. Salvador, built by Thomas de Sofa along the Seaside, runs up broad DdWwK >n 

 at the Suburb Carmo, hath four Market-places, into the biggeft whereof, being of %***!' , 

 longfquare, run nine Streets, the chief of which being very broad, hath many* 

 ftately Houfes. The fecond Market-place is of like form, onely it winds a little to. 

 wards the Right,and at the Entrance (lands a ftrong Prifon. The Cloyfter St. Francis, 

 inhabited by Jefuits, ftands in a Park near the Wall by which the Moat runs. To- 



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