ty A M E<Kl C A. Chap. VII. 



Paters Sailing from hence, ran to the Main Continent of America, infpected the 

 River Oronoque, where he quenched the Town St.Tlwmas, that had been fet on fire 

 by the fled Inhabitants, and brought aboard all what they had left. 

 Htnrick u*. During his fruitlefs Expedition, the Weftdndia Company Rigg'd out twenty fevert 

 g£ £ *p«*: 5 a ;i un der the Command of Henrick Lonque, Peter Ita, and Joojl 'Bankart ; the Land- 

 Soldiers being Commanded by Diederick Van Waerdenberg. Lonque coming to St. Vin» 

 cent, ftay'd a long time at Anchor there ; for in regard the Spaniard in the Low Coun- 

 treys rang'd on the Veltftoe, and had taken Amersfoort, the States of the United Hether- 

 lands were fore'd to keep thofeMen in their Service which the WeftJndia Company 

 had rais'd ; but fo foon as Wefel was retaken, and the HartogenSofch won by Frede- 

 rick Henrick, Prince of Orange, thirty fix Sail were fent to Lonque's afliftance. of 

 which fome came fooner to him than others at St. Vincent, where he had ftay'd four 

 Moneths without doing any remarkable Exploit. On St. Stevens Day he fet Sail 

 with fifty two Ships, thirteen Sloops, and two Prizes, all Mann'd with feven 

 thoufand Men, which meeting with contrary Winds and Calms, lay a great while 

 under the Line, the Scurvey began to encreafe amongft them daily, infomuch that 

 above twelve hundred lay fick, and three hundred dy'd fince they fet Sail from 

 St. Vincent 5 yet at laft Lonque getting fight oiOlmda, fent Waerdenberg on the fourth 

 of February with fixtcen Ships, carrying three thoufand Men to PaVo Morello, a Wood, 

 lying two Leagues Northward from Olinda, where he fuddenly Landed, notwith- 

 ftanding the Portuguefe guarded the Shore with two thoufand Men, whom Waerden- 

 berg, after a fliort Skirmifli , putting to flight, was the whole Night in Arms, 

 Takes on*j* and the next day became Mailer of Olinda, by breaking in on the North at the fame 

 time, when Colonel Schutte Storm'd on the South. Moreover, the Enemy furren- 

 dred the two Forts on %ecijfa, and forfook the Ifland. 



About the middle of March nine Ships which were wanting to make up Lonque's 

 Fleet, came to an Anchor by him, having brought him above fix hundred Soldiers, 

 many Guns, all manner of Ammunition under the Command of Lieutenant Colo- 

 nel Alexander Seton, and the three Adjutants John de Bruine , Philip Serooskerken, and 

 Horatim Calandryn, who immediately order'd the Cloyfter 011 Antonio Vaes to be for- 

 tif?d,and built a Fort with four Bulwarks at the Entrance of Po^p in the Countrey 

 %ecijfa. Seton alfo fet fire on the Suburbs of Olinda, in which the Enemy had Lodg'd 

 the Night before, and endeavor'd to poyfon the frefli Water on Antonio Vaes, when 

 on a fudden the Netherlander s fell upon them 5 two which drank of the Water dy'd, 

 and others fell into great Fits of Sicknefles, and it wanted little but that the Admi- 

 ral Lonque, with a Company of fifty Mufquetteers, had been kill'd returning 

 from ^ecifato Olinda, he being unawares fet upon by two Companies of Portugueses 

 &nd Brafelians, who kill'd above thirty fix of his Men, and dangeroufly wounded 

 fix more, fo that he brought off but eight Men unhurt. The like Misfortune be- 

 fell the Woodcutters on Antonio Vaes, furpris'd by the Portuguefe from an Am- 

 bufcade. 



Whileft Affairs flood thus about Olinda, there firft arriv'd two Ships from the 

 United Netherlands .at <%ecitfa } not long after four more, Commanded by John Walbeek, 

 and eight more under the Admiral Dirikvan Uitgeejl, who was follow'd by the 



Noahs Ark. 



About the fame time J)irk de gutter fet Sail with fix Ships, and Peter Ita with ten, 

 , to Cruife at Sea. 



/wbcingfet About the beginning of February, Lonque having put all things in good order, pre- 

 Enemy 7 , ? p^'d to return home, and weigh'd Anchor with nine Ships. But Ita going from 

 £rr?wiy? ry fy ci jfd to Olinda, to take his leave of the Council there, was fuddenly furpris'd af- 

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