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fometimes ten, fometimes fifteen Arm'd (portuguefes afliore, judg'd chat the Brajiti- 

 ans had been (lain by them, and therefore weighed Anchor to the great diilike of 

 the U r cjl-India Company. 



Since this unfuccefsful Defign on Tarayba, the Council at %tciff& were no whit 

 difcourag'd, butrefolv'd to make an Attempt on the River Grande with twelve 

 Ships and two Sloops, carrying ten Companies of Soldiers, befides Seamen ; but by 

 reafon of the difficulty of Landing (becaufe the Coaft being very Rocky, makes 

 the Sea go very hollow) the ftrength of the Place, both in tefpeclof its Fortificati- 

 on and number of Defendants, and the joyning of the Brajilians with them, they 

 were fore'd to return without effecting their Defign. 



About the fame time eight Sail arriv'd at ^eciffa from Holland, and Jonathan it ™- *J^r 

 Njekker, Cornells Cornelifzpon, alias Houte-been,2Lt\d %elnler Teterfoon, fee out with three ^"^To- 

 Frigats from the Texel to the I£le Vacca, where with Hunting, Fifliing, and gather- thcr9 - 

 ingof Fruit, they refrefli'd themfelves, and afterwards Steer'd to the River Magda* 

 Una, difcernable at three Leagues diftance by the thick yellow Water it difcharges 

 into the Sea through three Mouths. Between the Weftern and middlemoft Mouth 

 lies an Ifle in the middle of the River, behind which Houte*been came to an Anchor, 

 whileft Nekker and Veterfzoon kept Guard near Tutito Verde - y where though the Wind 

 blew very frefh in the Night, yet the Water remain'd fmooth : About Day-break 

 2{ekker difcovering a Sail, made chafe after the fame, but not able to come up with 

 her, loft her the following Night, and in the Morning faw a Barque, which run- 

 ning afliore was fet on fire by Teterfzpon • after which Nekker chafed two other 

 Ships, which likewife getting from him, he flood off at Sea out of fight of the Hies 

 Zamba, which are low on the Weft, and Hilly at the Eaft-end, where the Sea beats 

 vehemently againft a Promontory, and chafed a Barque afhore, whither he fent a • 

 Boat with eight Men $ which being beaten to pieces by the Waves, drowned four 

 of them, and the reft getting afliore were kill'c] by the Spaniards. Soon after 

 which four Spanljh Ships fet Sail after Nekker and Teterfzpon, and had not the Night 

 favor'd them they had been but in a bad Condition • forthey were notable to get 

 their Sea^men aboard, who having taken fomeWine afliore, had made themfelves 

 Drunk • about Day*break they defcry'd the four Spanijh VeiTels, which were gotten 

 fo far from them,that they could but juft difcern them from the Main-top. Not long 

 after they took two Barques, and came to an Anchor behind Zamba by Houte-Men, 

 who being driven by a Storm out of the River Magdalena to Jamaica, had chafed 

 a Barque afliore there, and a Ship with four hundred Negro's againft Sr. Martha, and 

 fince took a rich laden Barque near the River Magdaletia. In like manner Nekker and 

 Teterfzpon took a Ship coming from Caraaues, leaving Houte*been alone before Magda* 

 Una, who not long after difcover'd eighteen Spanifr Ships near the High-land 

 St. Martha, which were Steering to Carthagena s one whereof belonging to Carth^gena 

 he made Prize of, but was fore'd to forfake her in a great Storm ; after the ceafing 

 of which he took another Frigat, the Men whereof inform'd him, That the Admi- 

 ral Thomas de Cafpure was going with eleven Ships from Qape Antonio to Torto Helo, to 

 lade the feruVian Silver there. The Ship with Angolan Negro's, taken by Houte-becn, 

 he fet free, but kept a Frigat laden with Tallow, Hides, Tobacco, and Flefli, which 

 he had taken juft before the Coaft of <I{io Grande • and thus he went Privateering up 

 and down, when the Plate-Fleet from Nem Spain weighed Anchor from Juan de Lua, 

 the like of which in Riches had never fet Sail before, for it carry 'd 2169340 %yals 

 o£Eght for the Merchants, an unvaluable Treafure for the King, befides many 

 rich Commodities which feveral bought upon their own Accounts, that were 

 not entred in the Cuftonvhoufe : all which Treafure, laden innineGallions, be- 



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