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AMERICA Chap. VII. 



The Governor of %eciffa marching with his Booty from Garufa, fet feveral Hou- 

 fes on fire, and march'd towards the Fort Orange, on the Ifland Tamarica. Albuquerque 

 informed thereof, difpatch'd a Spanijh Regiment, Commanded by Colonel Ferdinand 

 LudoVico Barbalbo, and Paulo de Terado, with a confiderable Body of Volunteers . but 

 they all came too late : Whereupon the Portuguefes, being thus kept in continual 

 Alarms afhore, and fuftaining every day more and more Lofles at Sea, began to 

 defire Peace, and the rather, bccaufe they could not hear of any Fleet coming from 

 Spain to their afliftance j and hearing a Report, that the Weftdndia Company were 

 making great Preparations. To which purpofe Peter Jhares (acquainted with the 

 Dutch Commanders, as having been their Prifoner) was fent by Duarte de Albu- 

 querque (to whom the Lordfliip of Pernambuco properly belong'd) and by his Brother 

 (being General of all the Forces in Sraftle) to %eciffa, to Treat about the deciding 

 of the Differences between them and the Netherland Weft-India Company : But the 

 Council in %eciffa weighing the many Difadvantages that would cnfue, if they 

 fhould upon eafie Terms patch up a Peace with the Portugueses , return'd^/Vdm this 

 Anfwer : "That the Weft-India Company was refolv'd, to the utmoft of their 

 lC power, to keep all thofe Places which they had taken by force of Arms . but that 

 " if he could move Albuquerque to deliver up the Countrey to them, he fhould be 

 " bountifully rewarded. 



After this the Hollanders Landing at Barra Grande, took great quantities of Wine 

 and Tobacco, and burnt two Villages; asalfo the Sugar-Cane Fields, and Sugar- 

 Mills on Catuwanha, alfoone at Ban a Grande , and three at Porto Francifco. 



At the fame time the Hollanders alfo fcatter'd Letters amongft the Portuguese, fig- 

 nifying their trouble for the great effufion of Blood in thofe Parts, which was oc- 

 cafion'd by their own ftubbom and unreafonable Proceedings 5 likewifc intima- 

 ting the great Preparations that were making on their own part, and on the other 

 fide the great unlikelihood, and indeed impoffibility, as things then ftood, of 

 receiving farther Succors from Spain. 

 2scouT Thefe things bieng powerfully urgd, had perhaps taken greater cfFecl: with 

 tfthSl thc ^rtuguefes, had not the fecret Counfels of the Netherlanders been betray'd 

 nJfd h ln°' W Leonard * an Lorn, Overfeer of the Prizes, and Tranilater of the <Portuguefe Letters, 

 who confefs'd that he was perfwaded to that villanous Action in Amfterdam by a Por- 

 tuguefe Merchant, call'd Duarte %pdrigues Delves, with whom he had made fome 

 Agreement ; and for the better confirmation had receiv'd the Sacrament upon it of 

 an Amfterdam Prieft : His Agreement was, " That he fhould go to %eciffa, enquire 

 " after all Concerns, and give fpecdy advice thereof to %ocque de Barros • which he 

 did by a Mulatto, wJio carry'd Letters between them. 



This Villain the Council judging worthy of Death, firft caus'd his two fore- 

 Fingers to be cut off, next his Head, and afterwards his Body to be divided into 

 four Quarters. The Mulatto was likewifc Beheaded. 



About this time the Treafurer Ceulen viewing the Ifle Mayo, found the fame to be 

 furrounded with fteep Rocks,abounding with Horfes, Afles, Partridges and Goats, 

 befidcs two Salt-pans. The Inhabitants, which go Arm'd with Half.pikes and 

 rufty Hangers, are faid to be a fort of out-law'd <Portuguefes y to the number of thirty, 

 amongft whom was one Woman. They had a Governor, call'd Amaro, to whom 

 they gave yearly eight thoufand Goat-skins. 



Ceulen Sailing from hence Stcer'd by thc Ifiand Del Fogo, 4cnown by a great 

 Mountain, whofe high top vomits Fire. Not far from which he took the Ship 

 St. Peter laden with Wine, with which he return'd fafe to %tciffa, where a while 

 after Gyjfelling arriv'd alfo, and was no fooncr Landed, but four Ships, two Sloops, 



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