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on the Mountain near the City appear'd the Francifcan Cloyfter ; the Fort rais'd of 

 Earth had four Bulwarks, and twenty fix Guns, according to the Information of 

 the Eyc-witneffes flrevis and !Berfter y who were fent thither as Spies, 



Qallenfels Landed not fo carefully but that he loft forty Men, either kill'd from 

 JyX^wkh*- behind the Bread works, or out of a neighboring Wood. Being inform'd by a Tor- 

 out fuccef.. t igpfo p r ifoncr , of the ill Condition of the Town, and how flenderly it was provi- 

 ded, he immediately rais'd a Sconce, two Watch-houfes, and a Pallifado, from 

 which hefir'd with two Guns on the Caftle, and madefeveral Trenches y but the 

 Befieged were ftronger in People and Guns than the Befiegers, who being fcarce 

 able, by reafon of their fmall number, to keep Guards in all places, were alio tir'd 

 out under a hot Climate, and fainted for want of Provifions, infomuch that in 

 two days there dy'd and fell fick above two hundred ; wherefore Callcnfels jud^'d it 

 bed to draw off in time ; which that they might do fecurely, they made a Redoubt, 

 and the fix Companies Commanded by the Captains T^dinchoyen y Meppekn, Cloppen* 

 burg, Schenk, ( Byma y and Cook y refolv'd upon a defperate Attempt, as followeth : 

 Marching privately through a Wood behind the Enemy's Works, they fell in at 

 one fide upon xhtTortuguefe Trenches, from whence they drove them after a fmall 

 v refiftance, and fore'd them to flic towards the Fort, whither they were purfu'd with 

 fuch eagernefs, that thofe who were in the Fort, left the Hollanders might get in with 

 them, lock'd up the Avenues againft their own Men 5 at which they were foamaz'd, 

 that fomeof them climb'dupby the Walls of the Fort, but were either kill'd by the 

 Aflailants, or knock'd on the Head by their own People, becaufe feveral Hollanders 

 went to climb up amongft the Tortuguefe . the reft running about the Fort, fell into 

 the midft of the Netherlander s, where they were all cut off, being in number above a 

 hundred. The Hollanders alfo in this refolute Defign, had about twenty Men kill'd, 

 and fifty wounded ; after which they put lighted Matches on Sticks in their Ene- 

 my's Works, as if they had never made any Attempt on the City Tarayba. 



Whileft this Expedition fell out fo unfortunately,Swwtf performing his Voyage, 

 found in the Inlet Trajiciaon a Tortuguefe Vcflcl hal'd near the Shore under the 

 protection of two Pallifado's 5 wherefore fuppofing it beft not to make any Attempt 

 on the fame, he ran to an Anchor before Ubranduba y twenty Leagues below the Ri* 

 ver Grande 5 where the Natives Martial, Tacou y JraroVa, and Matauwe, who had been 

 in Holland y Landing, went to fee, and (peak with their Countrey.men to joyn with 

 the Netherland Weft-India Company : and fome days after the Seamen Landing again 

 in the fame place, met with Tacou y together with eight more ftout Men, and feven- 

 teen Women and Children, whocarry'd a flain Tortuguefe call'd Juan f Perera y to the 

 River Grande, zbout whom they had found Letters containing the whole Condition 

 of Siara ; which the !Brafilians imparting to Smient,hc fent a Ketch thither before,and 

 follow'd after himfelf. they Stecr'd along the Shore beyond the Shelves Guamare,by 

 the Mountains Sailina* and Tor to de Aff/,the Haven De Onces y znd River Juaguarbe, to 

 the White Toint, where the Brajilians Landing fpake with their People, and towards 

 the Evening brought good tydings, and defir'd that they might be Landed at Siara y 

 where they would put their Defign in praftice : Smient following their Advice, 

 receiv'd them aboard the NeTb Netherland, and Sail'd along by the fquare Fort Siara 

 towards a fmooth Shore on each fide, hedg'd in by thick Woods, where the Bra£lu 

 ans intended to Land ; but the Tortuguefe y and Brafilians belonging to their Parcy, 

 being gotten into the Wood before, fir'd fo vehemently, that they were fore'd to 

 Retreat, and Sail five Leagues farther beyond the Cape Opefe, made dangerous by 

 the many blind Cliffs that lie about the fame. Smient anchoring here, Landed the 

 !Brafilia?is y on promife that they would return in two days 5 but the Seamen feeing 



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