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AMERICA. 



Chap. VII. 



. Licbtbart 

 i\ rives the 

 Fortuguefe 

 out of the 

 Puntnd. 



They endea- 

 vor in vain 

 to regain the 

 Puntael. 



Befieged fawthe Hollanders rcfolutely bent upon a Storm,they lent to defire a Treaty, 

 and after fome fmall Capitulation the Caftle was furrendred upon Articles. Garfl. 

 nun being made Commander of the Caftle, had a hundred and fifty Soldiers alio w'd 

 him. The Fleet fet Sail again, after they had pull'd down and deftroy'd all the 

 Works which had been rais'd, and made the Inhabitants take an Oath to be faithful 

 to Garjlman, who chang' d the Name of the Caftle from Tres <Reyes to that of Ceulen, 

 being the Name of the Treafurer, who bore the chiefeft Commmand in the Siege, 

 and when the Srafilian King Jandui came with a great Train to congratulate the 

 Companies fuccefs, received him with great civility. 



In the beginning of the Year 1634. twenty fix Sail weighed Anchor from fyciffa, 

 to Cruifeup and down in Squadrons before the Inlet Todos los Sanftos, the Promon- 

 tory St. Auguftine, the Rivers Francifco and Tarayba. Scbuppe and Lichtbart alfo fet Sail 

 with two Ships, a Ketch, two Pinnaces, and a Sloop, carrying two hundred Sol- 



dicrs befides Seamen. 



Mean while frefh Forces were fent from the Texel, the Maes and Zeland, to fl(e- 

 ciffa, where the Council undertook another notable Defign, tf$ to furprize the 

 Forts along the River Tarayba : whither coming with twenty Sail, they divided 

 themfelves into two Squadrons under the Command of the Treafurer Jobn Gyfe. 

 lm(r y Scbuppe y SerVaes Carpentier, and Lichtbart. Having receiv'd fome rcpulfe at the 

 Fort Na%aretta y they refolv'd upon Aftion in fome other place, and to that purpofc 

 Steer'd towards the Point St. Auguftine j by Day-break a part of the Fleet ran into 

 the Mouth of the Haven, notwithftanding the Vortuguefe fir'cl upon them with great 

 Guns from the Caftle, and all their Works, without doing any confiderable 

 damage, onely the Sea.knight Ketch running aground was fliatter'd all to pieces . 

 whileft the Hollanders Commanded by Captain Licbtbart Landed nW<Puntael, and 

 fell upon the Portuguefe in fuch a manner,that they fore'd them to forfakc the Place, 

 burnt above two thoufand Chefts of Sugar, feveral Store-houfes, and a great 

 Ship, befides two Barques. 



Licbtbart being Mafter of the Puntael, was very bufie in finishing a Stone Re- 

 doubt which the Enemy had begun,and fecur'd it by a Wall and Pallifado's. Here 

 he plac'd two Companies,and rais'd feveral Works,whileft the Tortuguefe receiving 

 Aid from all the* neighboring Places, fet upon the recovery of the Tuntael, being 

 the rather encourag d thereunto, in regard the Holla?iders Forces were ftill in their 

 Ships. Fifteen hundred fortuguefes were divided into two Parties, the greateft of 

 which came through behind the adjacent MoraiTes, and fore'd in on the fide of the 

 place near which the fifteen Ships taken by Licbtbart lay at an Anchor, whileft the 

 other Party fell upon the Out-works ; where though the Hollanders defended them* 

 felves valiantly at firft, yet they were fore'd to Retreat to the Redoubt, where both 

 Parties fought with great cagernefs ; but the Hollanders Ketches haling near the Shore, 

 and firing in amongft the fortuguefe with their great Guns, fore'd them to flye,and 

 contrary to their Cuftom, to leave their dead Bodies behind them. 



Soon after, whileft Gyjfeling, Scbuppe 3 and Licbtbart ftay'd at the funtael, the for- 

 tuguefe, defigning to take %eciffa } kept the Ajogaios and the Fort on Jntonio Vaes in 

 continual Alarm • which made the Hollanders fend moft of their Militia thither, and 

 to fortifie yet more ftrongly than before. The Caftle De <Bruin firft difcovering the 

 fortuguefe wading through the Water, fir'd great Guns at them, upon the hearing 

 of which Waerdenburgb and St. George fir'd alfo. The Treafurer Ceulen and Lieute- 

 nant-Colonel <Byma march'd with a Company of Soldiers to the Stone Redoubt, 

 from whence they fir'd ftoutly upon the Enemy ; yet thirty of them got by the 

 Pallifado's and Stone Redoubt : wherefore Ceulen march'd in with fome of his 



Men 



