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Fort Nazareth built on die Mountain . befides, Nazareth, if gam'd, could fcarce be 

 defended, unlefs the whole Mountain were Intrench'd round, which would not 

 onely be very chargeable, butalfoimpoffible, becaufe of the red Earth, altogether 

 unfit for Fortifications ; and the barren Mountain afforded neither Wood, nor any- 

 thing elfe ; befides, the Storming of it would be very dangerous : The Entrance 

 into the Haven was difficult, becaufe a ftonie Bank before the fame fuffer'd no Paf- 

 fage but betwixt fmall Openings . the chiefeft whereof was guarded by a Water. 

 Caftle,and farther within by the Fort funtael. Along the Sea-fliorc their Landing 

 was prevented by the violent beating of the Waves, and a great fquare Tower on 

 the Way up to the Fort Nazareth, whofe Church is feen at a great diftanceoff at Sea. 

 All which confider'd, they judg'd it bed to draw off their Men again, and fo they 

 returned without having effected any thing to the purpofe, onely Captain Scbuppe 

 took two Carvels with five hundred Cherts of Sugar in the River Formofa. 



Soon after Martin Tbyfzpon being lent out with twenty two Sail, fent four Ships 

 for Holland with the Lieutenant-Colonel Stein CaUenf els, and the Councellor Seroos- 

 kerken ; yet thirteen Sail remained ftill before the Coaft of fBrafile, under the Com- 

 mand of Captain John Maft, who whilcft he flood to and again from the Shore, 

 and Cruifing up and down, the Governor of %eciffa and Colonel <I(embacb march'd 

 with five hundred Men and forty Negro's, from %eciffa about fix a Clock at Night, 

 by OUnda along the Shore : Whereupon the Portuguese Horfe-watch ran inftantly to 

 %eal, two Leagues from OUnda, to give notice thereof to Albuquerque . but they fur- 

 mounted all the Difficulties they met with by the Way (which were the greater in 

 regard of the abundance of Rain that had lately fall'n,)and on the firftof May 1632. 

 came to the City Garafu about Noon ; where whileft <kembadh flood ftill in good or, VZf& 

 der with three Companies, the Governor of^eciffa fell upon the Town with three h^JZs^ 

 Companies. The Inhabitants had not the leaft thoughts of being molefted by the 

 Netherlander there, becaufe they judg'd the Ways which led thither could not be 

 pafs'd in that rainy Seafon. In the firft Onfet a hundred fortuguefes, moft of them 

 great Merchants, were flain, they being come thither with their Goods from OUnda - 

 and amongft the Prifoners which they took, were RxFranciJcans. 



This Vi&ory the Hollanders obtain'd with the lofs but of eight Men, and twenty 

 five wounded, befides Captain %embacb, who was alfo wounded. The Governor 

 of ^eciffa entering the City, flav'd two hundred Pipes of Wine, to keep his Soldiers 

 from overdrinking . and becaufe there were many fair Women there, he caus'd 

 them all to be locked up in the Church of St. Cofmo, to prefervc them from the Sol- 

 diers outrages. 



The Prieft Duarte Mende^Serraon(z Letter of whole John de Laet quotes) values the ^Mfc* 

 Booty carry'd away by the Hollanders from Garafu, at 0000 I. SterL befides the da- 

 mage which the Place fuffer'd, being almoft ruin'd. He relates farther, That the 

 City calPd Villa de Santo Qofmo de Garafu lay five Leagues to the Northward from 

 Olinda. and that in it were three Churches, v/^. Qofmm, Mtfericordia, and Heremi* 

 tage de Santa Crux • as alio two Cloyfters, vi%. Invocation de Antonio, inhabited by 

 Capuchins, and another dedicated to Francifcus, inhabited by Perfons of his Order . 

 That the chief Church Qofmus, built like a flat-roof'd Houfe, had a fair Entrance, 

 before which flood two Turrets, and in them hung Bells ; That the Franctfcan 

 Cloyfter was inclos'd within a great Wall in the middle of a pleafant Garden, and 

 had on each fide a Tower . That moft of the People who kept the Feaft of St. fbu 

 Up and St. Jacob, were at Map when the Hollanders came thither, and though they 

 faw the Soldiers out of their Windows, judg'd them to be Tortuguefes, who (as it 

 was reported) had a Defign upon Tamarica. 



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