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take revenge for the LolTeS fuftain'd by Heyn- } who ncverthelefs coming down thi- 

 ther Toed out the three Prize-ftiips with Boats hung about with Hides, firing into 

 the Enemies Battlements with his great Guns, which he had put aboard of the Fox 

 Ketch. About the middle of June hk took in the Prize-goods in view of the City 

 St. Salvador, where feven Ketherland Ships from feveral places lay at an Anchor. 

 Setting Sail from hence oil the fourteenth of July, and reaching 7>{oronbo y known b^ 

 a Mountain which appears like a Steeple, he met with Qomelis Ooles Fleet, (who 

 had been Cruifing before La flata) with whom he arriv'd fafe in the Texel, having 

 in their Way thither from TS^oronbo taken a Prize, laden with Sugar, Tobacco, and 

 $raftle Wood. 



During feter Heyns Expedition Thomas Sickes, fitted out by the Wejl*India Com- jih^&ty 

 pany, weighed Anchor out of the Texel with two Sail, and coming to St. Vincent he ^ E * p 

 found a Spanijh VeiTel burnt down to the Hulk, took a fortuguefe Pink with Slaves 

 from Angola : Near the Inlet Todos los Santlos he funk a Barque, having firft taken 

 feveral Pots of Oyl and Packs of Linnen out of the fame : Before Ternambuco he 

 took a Carvel with a hundred and eighty Pipes of Wine, and a VefTel with Sugar 

 and Hides, and drove another afliore againft the Promontory St. Augujline. But 

 Sickes being fupply'd and ftrengthned by three Ships from the Texel, and four ta- 

 ken VelTels, ran with four to Todos los Santlos, fent two to Cruifc about Cape St. 

 Augufline, and two more to the North oiTernambuco : At the Ifle 7>{pronbo they were 

 order'd to ftay a Moneth one for another, from whence, after much hardfhip, they 

 return'd home with fo many rich Prizes, that they pay'd their Charges ten times 

 double; which fo encourag'd the Adventurers, that the Chamber of the WejtAniia 

 Company in Zealand fitted out three Sail under the Command of Henrick Lucifer, utmUK i* 

 who weighing Anchor from Flufhing Anno 1 627. fteer'd along the Coaft of Jfrkalff^^fc 

 to the Jma^one River, and from thence North North- Weft to the Stream Wiapoco, 

 to fettle a Colony there 5 to which purpofe Rowing up the River with Sloops, they 

 came in the Night to two empty Houfes, built at a place cali'd Wacogenive^ which 

 they judg'd fit for their purpofe 5 wherefore they carry'd all things afliore which 

 they had brought out of Zealand with them for the new Planters, who while they 

 were all bufie building of Huts, a Negro was taken Prifoner, who being ask'd why 

 the Inhabitants fled ? reply 'd, That it was occafion'd from a guilty Confcience j 

 for two years before a Barque and two Sloops with Qbrijlians coming thither from 

 the jimazone River, had ftay'd thirty days on Wacogenive, when unawares they were 

 fet upon by the Natives, and all kill'd except three, who were yet living. Upon 

 which Lucifer } hzving four Indians ,i\ixtt Men and one Woman, aboard of his Veflel, 

 thrcatned to put them all to the Sword, unlefs they would produce the three fore- 

 mention'd Christians : Whereupon the next day a German came to the Water fide, 

 of whom they could get little Information, he having in a manner forgot his native 

 Tongue ; but at length the other two coming thither, the eldeft of them, nam'd 

 John Hendricfaon, related to him, That the Tortuguefe in great numbers fell upon 

 the Plantations near the Ama^one River, Govern'd by Captain Oudaen, who after he 

 had fought valiantly a whole day, being overpower'd by number, retreated to his 

 Barque, and Sail'd into the Creek inhabited by the Biglijl), whither the Tortuguefc 

 following in Canoos, cut off not onely Oudaen, but the Englifl) alfo, forty fix Men 

 onely efcaping in a Barque under the Command of Lieutenant Teter de Sruine to 

 the River Wiapoco • where they had ftay'd about three days, when Sergeant Matruit 

 treacheroufly (hot Lieutenant Sruine : after which the forty fix divided them- 

 felves into four Parties • but the Inhabitants to rid themfelves of thefc Strangers, 

 under the fticw of great friend(hip,made them Drunk with the Liquor call'd Ternau, 



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