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fides a confidcrable number of Frigats and (mail VeiTels, was committed to the 



Charge of Miguel de Ecbacareta^ but he dying before the Fleet fet Sail, Manuel Serano 



de 1{tbera was chofen Admiral ; but a dreadful Storm arifing as they were Sailing be. 



fore the Goad of Qampecbe in their Way to Havana, the whole Fleet was in a manner 



utterly deftroy'd, with a moft unvaluableTreafure : The Admiral, Vice- Admiral, 



Gallion Terefta, and feveral other Gallions, funk, with at lead twothoufand Men, a 



great number of Perfons of Quality, and amongft the reft the Marquefs Salinas, who 



The Mar- was moft treacheroufly <lain by thirty Perfons, who made themfelves Mafters of a 



mu^\T' Sloop, into which he went for fafety out of the finking Admiral Jufcppe : That 



f* hi* jewel* w f ) j c [ 1 inftigated them to thishorrid A<5t, was the fight of a fmall Trunk of Jewels 



which he carry 'd into the Sloop : Not long after falling out amongft themfelves 



about dividing the Spoil, feveral of them were difcover'd, apprehended, and put to 



death. 



This Fleet weighed Anchor the day after their Admiral Miguel de Ecbacareta was 

 buried, who dy'd fo fuddenly that he could make no Will. A few days after the 

 departure of the Fleet, a hundred and feventy Houfes were burnt at Juan de Lua. It 

 appears that the Spaniards out of fear of the Ifytherlanders, fet Sail on the tenth of 

 October, notwithstanding it was at an inconvenient time, becaufe about that Seafon 

 the Hurricanes rage moft terribly in the Bay of Vera Crux. 



By a Letter from the Treafurer Francifcus Suare^ it appears, that the two Regi- 

 ments in the City St. Salvador, the one Commanded by Cbrijlopher SMexia Bocanegra, 

 confifting of nine Companies, each of fixty Men, and the other Commanded by 

 Vafco de Mafcarema*, confifting of thirteen Companies, coft the King of 'Spain yearly 

 21515 /. to maintain them. 

 Mfe&&£ The Netberland Council at %eciffa no way difcourag'd by their fuccefslefs 

 Attempts made the laft Year on <^to Grande, fent thirteen Companies of Soldiers 

 aboard of feventeen Veffels, to # build a Fort at the River Formofa, where the Vortu* 

 guefe being too weak to refift them, fet fire on a Store-houfe with three hundred 

 Chefts of Sugar, and fleck Walbeck was Commander in Chief in this Defign, who 

 Landing on Formofa found no fit place to build a Fort in, becaufe the Shore, not 

 being above a Mufcjuet-fhot broad, was inclos'd with Woods, behind which by 

 high Mountains that Commanded the Shore ,- therefore marching to Serinbain he 

 burnt feveral Houfes and a new Sugar-Mill, near which in a Store*houfe he took 

 twelve hundred Chefts of Sugar, which for want of Carts he could not carry to his 

 Ships. Alfo before <Porto Calvo he burnt a Carvel, and took a great number of Cat. 

 tel on Camarigibi, and return'd without any farther Exploits to Q{eciffa t where the 

 Cruifers had brought in feveral Prizes during his abfence. 



The Council refolving not to fit idle, let out another Fleet of eighteen Ships 

 under the Command of Martin Tbyf^pon, with a Regiment of fourteen Companies 

 under Stein Callenfels. 

 The Expedi- This Fleet approaching Cape Auvuflin, they found a ridge of Rocks alone the 



tiohof^r- . ■ n I • 1 1 r* I . 1 1 It! 1 



tmThyfcnn Shore, againlt which the Sea beat with great vehemency ; at length they came be* 

 c*ihnf e is. fore a fmall Inlet, at whofe Mouth lay a fmall Fort from which the Enemy fir'd up- 

 on the Mann'd Boats which Row'd by the fame : at fomc diftance they difcern'd 

 two Breaftworks, one rais'd above the other near the Shore ; on which when the 

 Hollanders thought to Land, three hundred Portugueses fir'd at once upon them ; 

 and on a Hill not far from thence appear'd more Men, which amaz'd the Council 

 of War, for the Inlec was fo narrow, that not above fix Boats could Land at once ; 

 and it was evident, that though the Enemy fhould chance to be beaten from behind 

 his Breaft works, yet the Hollanders would lie expos'd to the Enemy's Guns frorh the 



Fort 



